Apple building a Kindle clone?


	Apple building a Kindle clone?

David M Ewalt

3-11-2009 4:53 PM

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apple, amazon, ipod, kindle

David M Ewalt says:

I hope if this is true Amazon and Apple find some way to co-exist -- it would be terrible to have some publishers work with Apple and some with Amazon. Both stores should have the same books, in the same format -- let the companies compete on the hardware front.

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