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I am more to believe that those two quotes should have been reversed. I am all for the idea of publisher's being pushed out in favor of authors getting direct to customers, the same idea that would be so nice in music.

There really is no difference in the end, both can easily be delivered electronically and both have adherents to the old means of enjoying them; physical copies.

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It's unfair to say the reverse when Amazon were only making a loss to monopolize the market. However, Apple didn't care that book industry were gouging the consumer - no printing costs, no shipping costs, no packaging costs .. why should eBooks be the same price? Greed! I don't buy eBooks on principle. If the price was reduced accordingly, so that the book industry maintained its profits - that would have been fair and equitable. From my perspective, neither Apple nor Amazon had this goal in mind.

I have no opinion on which way round the Jobs statement should be, but judging by profit margins, Bezos seems to play a game which is more: I lose, you win, maybe sometime later, I'll win, maybe. He is nigh on impossible to predict and bottom lines don't seem to motivate him at all.

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