Will The New Apple Partnership Inspire Publishers?

After years of battling over trademark, today Apple Corps and Apple came together to sell music by The Beatles.

With this long battle finally settled into partnership, it raises questions for what this type of partnership could mean for digital publishing. Amazon is arguably to eBooks what Apple is to MP3s, and the retailer has gotten a lot of grief from publishers for trying to sell their books for bargain prices and for bypassing publishers to make deals directly with literary agents.