Are we talking about books?
Books???
What should Apple's strategy be now?
Steve and Company were deep into a war back then but it just doesn't make sense now. Apple lost the lawsuit regarding book pricing so from there on out there isn't a future profit for books.
Apple has a no amazon kindle library on iOS, is it true that there is an amazon library on Kindle on Android...what is apple gaining here?
Was there ever going to be any future where books become a revenue source? - Why is Apple fighting over books, it makes no sense.
Apple missed the bigger picture with books, once the pricing lawsuit was lost profit is gone from books. I've purchased books on iBooks because they had more audio visual features than other platforms. Only charge Amazon 30% for the value add they put on the book, if they sell a book that is identical to the printed book, no audio/visual, then they don't have a fee, or a modest fee of like $0.50 to $1.00 per book. At the same time, perhaps Apple could do a better job of showing their exclusive deals, additional book features and stop fighting over a fairly commodity-like product, like books.
Author preface video.
Recommendation videos.
large maps, drawings, interactive graphs
I think they could do so many things since Apple's 'reader' is an iPad and Amazon still has 'single purpose' (they are cool tech) Kindle readers.
Books???
What should Apple's strategy be now?
Steve and Company were deep into a war back then but it just doesn't make sense now. Apple lost the lawsuit regarding book pricing so from there on out there isn't a future profit for books.
Apple has a no amazon kindle library on iOS, is it true that there is an amazon library on Kindle on Android...what is apple gaining here?
Was there ever going to be any future where books become a revenue source? - Why is Apple fighting over books, it makes no sense.
Apple missed the bigger picture with books, once the pricing lawsuit was lost profit is gone from books. I've purchased books on iBooks because they had more audio visual features than other platforms. Only charge Amazon 30% for the value add they put on the book, if they sell a book that is identical to the printed book, no audio/visual, then they don't have a fee, or a modest fee of like $0.50 to $1.00 per book. At the same time, perhaps Apple could do a better job of showing their exclusive deals, additional book features and stop fighting over a fairly commodity-like product, like books.
Author preface video.
Recommendation videos.
large maps, drawings, interactive graphs
I think they could do so many things since Apple's 'reader' is an iPad and Amazon still has 'single purpose' (they are cool tech) Kindle readers.