I made a lot of impulse Kindle purchases during the phase when so many books were $9.99. I’ve never bought an iBook… whenever possible, I buy via Kindle instead, as a consumerist means of protesting Apple’s meddling with the price of books.
US regulators have called for Apple to be forced to cancel certain e-book contracts with major publishers.
They added Apple should be hit with a five-year ban on entering distribution contracts deemed anti-competitive. —BBC News.
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I’ve tried every electronic reader out there. And I’m admittedly an Apple person. But there is just something about paper that cannot be reproduced electronically for me. Flipping real pages is part of the reading experience for me I guess!