My thoughts about Steve Jobs and Apple working with the publishers ahead of launching iBooks:
Apple had been seen at first as a savior with iTunes by rescuing the Music Industry from Napster and piracy.
Then the industry grumbled about the $.99 per single song deal.
Jobs knew that he would be competing with Free, and the only way to start a legitimate music download business was to sell singles for a buck.
That has since risen in some cases by $.30 per song and by making whole albums available.
With books, piracy wasn't the enemy as in the music scenario, Amazon's crushing deals were.
Amazon low-balled the book publishers and authors by having a monopoly.
Jobs was trying to rectify that low ball position on price he took with the music business when entering the book business by working things out with the publishers ahead of time, instead of after the fact, as had to with the music labels.
I think Jobs wanted there to at least be a choice besides Amazon, where authors and publishers weren't losing money like the music industry did with Napster, before Apple rescued them with the iTunes music store.
It's hard to save people, companies or even industries from themselves, but Jobs did it.
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