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Re:Bye-bye kindle by hexley on Friday May 29, 2009 @09:04AM (#631966)
Apple and Google are pretty fucking buddy-buddy atm, and isn't Google trying to scan/index every book in existence? Apple could execute it perfectly, with iTunes as a frontend to Google's vast library.
Re:Bye-bye kindle by ryanwaggoner on Friday May 29, 2009 @10:59AM (#632172)
The barrier to having a huge ebook catalog isn't the lack of scanned books, it's the lack of publisher cooperation. You think that just because Google has scanned millions of books (to the great consternation of the publishers) that they're going to relent when Google/Apple proposes that they start selling them for cheap in an iTunes market? Please.
Re:Bye-bye kindle by swombat on Friday May 29, 2009 @09:26AM (#631993)
There's no reason why iTunes couldn't sell eBooks too.