Apple, Amazon to be Probed for, Um, 'Probing' Competition
So, the Kindle Store and iBooks are going to save books, right? With writers and publishers getting paid and readers able to buy affordable ebooks, this brave new world is a dream in which we read our Kindles and iPads in verdant fields, surrounded by models playing harps made out of chocolate and everyone is happy… Not so fast. The Connecticut Attorney General say that not all is quite so rosy in our admittedly weird reading dream (seriously, what good is a ‘chocolate harp’?). Instead, the state’s AG is saying that Amazon and Apple are working to prevent other suppliers from getting as good a deal…