Medialoper imagines an iTunes e-book store
By Paul Biba
He starts out: Confession time. I was wrong about reading ebooks on the iPhone.
The article then goes on to discuss what Apple would have to put into place to do sell books on iTunes. Interestingly, one the things he finds that might discourage Apple is Overdrive’s recent actions:
A source of books. This almost goes without saying, but before Apple can begin selling ebooks, they’ll need a source of books. Apple can either negotiate with individual publishers to acquire a license to sell ebooks, or they might source the books from a third party like Overdrive. The same Overdrive that recently cut-off hundreds of thousands of titles in a dispute with Fictionwise earlier this month. That’s the sort of business practice that probably won’t inspire a lot of confidence on the part of Apple.
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