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"But will this be true for long, now that this particular shoe has dropped?" iBooks is still an also-ran. Publishers pretty much have to work with Amazon. iBoo
by jon_hendry 16y ago
"But will this be true for long, now that this particular shoe has dropped?"
iBooks is still an also-ran. Publishers pretty much have to work with Amazon. iBooks is easier to ignore, I should think.
- mechanical_fish 16y agoWe'll see. Your logic was impeccable a year ago, before any iPads were sold; that's probably why iBooks is such an also-ran today. (Contracts take time to run out, the iPad isn't even a year old, and its success has taken even the optimists by surprise.) But ignoring the iOS market gets harder by the day. There's a lot of tasty, tasty customers out there. We'll see what happens. Note that Apple's new, um, clarification of its policy doesn't take effect for several months. I expect there will be weeks of furious behind-the-scenes jockeying for position among Apple, Amazon, and various publishers, after which there might be more announcements.
- jon_hendry 16y agoThe thing is, publishers and distributors can make better deals with Amazon, because Amazon will carry a wider array of stuff including physical books, including books that don't make sense as ebooks such as pop-up books, or the books that come with accessories like tree seedlings to plant or meditation beads or whatnot.