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To: Squawk 8888

The problem is that if you use an ipad you get books for pennies, but anything else you pay the paper price for the book. Apple locked up that deal with publishers and cut everyone else out.

Amazon on the other hand has been running bookstores out of business by their pricing that delivers books to the door of your house cheaper or as cheap as stores can sell them off the shelf. Amazon has become the gorilla no one can compete with.

So, Apple versus Amazon seems a fair competition. We only need WalMart to get in the middle of it to have a tournament. :>)


7 posted on 04/11/2012 7:43:54 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Pray Continued Victory for our Troops Still in Afghan!)
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To: xzins

I’m not so sure- some books I have considered buying from Amazon lately (Kindle format) have been nearly as expensive as their price for the print version. Not all publishers play nice w/Amazon. They don’t cut any better deals for Apple.

Lets see- Amazon’s Kindle vs Apple’s iBooks, vs B&N Nook and the relative newcomer Google Books...

So let’s pick just one of those and file an anti-trust case against them.


12 posted on 04/11/2012 9:03:31 AM PDT by TheBattman (Isn't the lesser evil... still evil?)
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