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Isn’t Apple only seeking a cut of sales of digital goods? You can sell physical merchandise like a real book, but you can’t sell an ebook without cutting them i
by nihonde 9y ago
Isn’t Apple only seeking a cut of sales of digital goods? You can sell physical merchandise like a real book, but you can’t sell an ebook without cutting them in.
- weavie 9y agoI thought surely you can buy ebooks on the Kindle app for iOS. But a quick search and you are right - nope, you cannot buy books on the Kindle app for iOS. The option just isn't there.
- jonknee 9y agoAnd you can't even present a link to purchase digital goods through a browser... You can open Mobile Safari and search Amazon for a Kindle book, but you can't use an Amazon app of any sort to do part of it.
- baby 9y agoThat part really blew my mind. I spent a good 20min trying to find out how to buy audiobooks on audible
- tzahola 9y agoWeird, considering the fact that the Bandcamp app lets you buy music digitally via PayPal. Am I missing some important difference between the two?
- nihonde 9y agoThey must be paying Apple their percentage of the proceeds, unless they have an exception.
- tzahola 9y agoI'm not sure. I've found this in the App Store Review Guidelines: >3.1.5 (a) Physical Goods and Services Outside of the App: If your app enables people to purchase goods or services that will be consumed outside of the app, you must use purchase methods other than in-app purchase to collect those payments, such as Apple Pay or traditional credit card entry. But if this applies to Bandcamp, then it would equally apply to Amazon... So I don't know.
- jonknee 9y agoI just downloaded Bandcamp for iOS and under Digital Album I see "Not available for purchase on this device" along with links to purchase the physical vinyl or CD.
- tzahola 9y agoHm, you’re right. I didn’t notice it but the album I tried it was “digital download + limited edition print”... mea culpa.