Apple sets deadline for Amazon's Kindle app to change - They want 30% per book
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Re: Apple sets deadline for Amazon's Kindle app to change - They want 30% per book
#2Pretty greedy isn't it?
Re: Apple sets deadline for Amazon's Kindle app to change - They want 30% per book
#3Well that's one way to attempt and make your eBook store competitive.
Re: Apple sets deadline for Amazon's Kindle app to change - They want 30% per book
#4What if Apple started demanding 30% of all sales transacted on every device they produce? What makes an iPhone so different from a MacBook?
Re: Apple sets deadline for Amazon's Kindle app to change - They want 30% per book
#5How will this work for O'Reilly books I purchase in pdf format? How can Apple stop me from reading it without blocking all non-DRMed pdfs?
Re: Apple sets deadline for Amazon's Kindle app to change - They want 30% per book
#6Thus why you should only buy ebooks where you get easily transferrable formats, like unencumbered PDF or ePub.
I'm a big fan of O'Reilly's multi-format approach. This is the correct end-run around proprietary stores.
Regarding this issue in particular, I don't see the problem with Amazon and others kicking their users out to Safari to do purchases, and thus as the purchase wouldn't happen "in app" it wouldn't be covered by this.
Not as smooth of a purchase experience, but not impossible to deal with.
The other alternative would be to tack on a 30% surcharge on any books bought directly through the app.
Re: Apple sets deadline for Amazon's Kindle app to change - They want 30% per book
#7What if Apple started demanding 30% of all sales transacted on every device they produce? What makes an iPhone so different from a MacBook?
If you invite a girl out on a date with an iPhone - you then have to go round and give an Apple shareholder 30% of the complements, backrubs and sweet-sweet loving she was going to get
Re: Apple sets deadline for Amazon's Kindle app to change - They want 30% per book
#8How will this work for O'Reilly books I purchase in pdf format? How can Apple stop me from reading it without blocking all non-DRMed pdfs?
They likely won't.
There are also plenty of PDF readers in the store already (Goodreader, for example) that are independent of Apple's iBooks.
Unlike Sony, Apple isn't generally known for removing functionality from products after purchase...
Re: Apple sets deadline for Amazon's Kindle app to change - They want 30% per book
#9How will this work for O'Reilly books I purchase in pdf format? How can Apple stop me from reading it without blocking all non-DRMed pdfs?
I'm pretty sure they are only interested in books purchased on the device. If you don't purchase it on the device they don't get a cut.
Re: Apple sets deadline for Amazon's Kindle app to change - They want 30% per book
#10Thus why you should only buy ebooks where you get easily transferrable formats, like unencumbered PDF or ePub. I'm a big fan of O'Reilly's multi-format approach. This is the correct end-run around proprietary stores. Regarding this issue in particular, I don't see the problem with Amazon and others kicking their users out to Safari to do purchases, and thus as the purchase wouldn't happen "in app" it wouldn't be cove…
" I don't see the problem with Amazon and others kicking their users out to Safari to do purchases"
At least as far as I can tell from this article and others, this is one of the things that Apple wants to disallow. At least there must also be an option to buy using the Apple system, giving Apple a 30% cut. And I highly doubt that Apple's going to allow an app that says "click here to buy through Apple, click here to buy through Amazon for 30% less".