Posts by hill60

How to attract a thriving third party developer community to your platform.   Don't do everything yourself.

Quote: Originally Posted by Rayz    Where in that article does it say that Amazon threatened to pull their books if Macmillan signed with Apple?    Let me help you; it...

Quote: Originally Posted by daveinpublic  I have been disappointed at the high price of ebooks. To me, a hard back book should cost more than a digital book. Because you don't have to pay to print it, you don't have to...

Quote: Originally Posted by Victory2013    I guess you refuse to acknowledge those emails from that pesky Steve Jobs telling the publishers what priced needed to be.   Apple has dirty hands...

Quote: Originally Posted by Rayz    I think you misheard. If Amazon made such a threat then that would be tantamount to using their monopoly position to restrict access to the marketplace. That is about as...

Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider  "We wanted to avoid losing most or all of their titles from our store," Gartinetti said of MacMillan.   Yeah, right.

Quote:Originally Posted by drewys808  No. I believe the use of the term, "buyer" is Apple, not the end user: http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2012/08/mfn.shtm Apple is an agent, not a buyer.

Quote:Originally Posted by Victory2013 Sorry but that is a bogus excuse, if they don't want their high priced hard cover books cannibalized then don't offer that book in e book format until they are done with their hard cover....

Quote: Originally Posted by drewys808  in JungMark's defense, the wording is "dominant buyer" (not "player")...the buyer would be Apple not the group of publishers. And it DOES matter in the court of law how...

Quote: Originally Posted by Gatorguy  I don't remember which of the five publishers who made the MFN clause a requirement and subsequently accused of anti-trust violations supplied that particular series of books....