Comments on: Apple’s iPad May Hurt eBook Readers http://www.kevinpurcell.org/archives/679 my brain explodes into cyberspace Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:45:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Michael Borgstede http://www.kevinpurcell.org/archives/679/comment-page-1#comment-105 Michael Borgstede Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:39:14 +0000 http://www.kevinpurcell.org/archives/679#comment-105 I agree that the Apple negotiations with publishers may be a "game changer" but it was Apple that standardized the pricing of music (though they did raise their prices this last year) and now most prices are the same across the board (and if I remember right most music companies didn't like the .99 per song) so while this may create a price increase in the short term I think we will finally see a leveling out of prices that has been needed. I also hope we get a more standardizing of book formats or at least readers that will read many formats like music is now (and maybe a removal of DRM like music) So we will see but I think in the long run we will get a realistic market for eBooks thanks to Apple's strong negotiating and influencing power! I agree that the Apple negotiations with publishers may be a “game changer” but it was Apple that standardized the pricing of music (though they did raise their prices this last year) and now most prices are the same across the board (and if I remember right most music companies didn’t like the .99 per song) so while this may create a price increase in the short term I think we will finally see a leveling out of prices that has been needed. I also hope we get a more standardizing of book formats or at least readers that will read many formats like music is now (and maybe a removal of DRM like music)

So we will see but I think in the long run we will get a realistic market for eBooks thanks to Apple’s strong negotiating and influencing power!

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