Comments on: Apple to be major e-book supplier? Could music-related e-booklets pave the way? http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/apple-to-be-major-e-book-supplier-could-music-related-e-booklets-pave-the-way/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:23:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Don Smith http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/apple-to-be-major-e-book-supplier-could-music-related-e-booklets-pave-the-way/comment-page-1/#comment-1112047 Don Smith Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:48:49 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/07/27/apple-to-be-major-e-book-supplier-could-music-related-e-booklets-pave-the-way/#comment-1112047 Don't be surprised if the opposite is true. Bezos and Jobs had to agree to allow the Kindle app in the iTunes store. Maybe we should be talking "Kindle" and mean "book software" rather than "device". Maybe there is going to be a strong relationship between both companies rather than competition. Maybe DRM is alive and well in such a partnership. Or maybe DRM free documents will incur an additional fee. Don’t be surprised if the opposite is true. Bezos and Jobs had to agree to allow the Kindle app in the iTunes store. Maybe we should be talking “Kindle” and mean “book software” rather than “device”. Maybe there is going to be a strong relationship between both companies rather than competition. Maybe DRM is alive and well in such a partnership. Or maybe DRM free documents will incur an additional fee.

]]> By: David Rothman http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/apple-to-be-major-e-book-supplier-could-music-related-e-booklets-pave-the-way/comment-page-1/#comment-1111978 David Rothman Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:16:45 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/07/27/apple-to-be-major-e-book-supplier-could-music-related-e-booklets-pave-the-way/#comment-1111978 Gosh, Mike, that ought to be news to the E Ink gizmo-makers who are moving away from Mobi to ePub. Same for Hachette and others that use it as a distribution format. Ditto for Springer, which is just begging for eBook standards. Ditto for Atlantis which lets even nontechnical people do ePub books. Jeez, why are you pushing Apple do hard? Jeff Bezos is bad enough as a candidate to run the e-book industry. I congratulate you for all those positive words about the only guy who'd be more egotistical about it. Steve Jobs, lol. Cheers, David Gosh, Mike, that ought to be news to the E Ink gizmo-makers who are moving away from Mobi to ePub. Same for Hachette and others that use it as a distribution format. Ditto for Springer, which is just begging for eBook standards. Ditto for Atlantis which lets even nontechnical people do ePub books.

Jeez, why are you pushing Apple do hard? Jeff Bezos is bad enough as a candidate to run the e-book industry. I congratulate you for all those positive words about the only guy who’d be more egotistical about it. Steve Jobs, lol.

Cheers,
David

]]> By: Mike Cane http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/apple-to-be-major-e-book-supplier-could-music-related-e-booklets-pave-the-way/comment-page-1/#comment-1111966 Mike Cane Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:03:02 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/07/27/apple-to-be-major-e-book-supplier-could-music-related-e-booklets-pave-the-way/#comment-1111966 Man, ePub is dead. Word of it just hasn't been evenly distributed yet. Man, ePub is dead. Word of it just hasn’t been evenly distributed yet.

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