[Jubb]

He clearly has some conflicting views here,"The walled garden thing can’t last forever...Apple and Amazon can be publishers within the universal system. But they can’t have monopoly channels."

This might be a nice idea, but aren't Apple and Amazon directly competing right now? How is it that they are both holding a monopoly on ebooks? People like choice, if there really were one massive distribution system I would worry that it would become the new monopoly.

[rick888]

People have this notion that if you create a digital application or product and don't want it to be shared without your consent, that you have a monopoly over it.