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The way I read it, this would only concern Amazon with the Kindle app if it had newspaper/magazine subscriptions in Kindle for iOS. Currently it doesn't, so I d

• evilduck 16y ago
  Also not a lawyer, but: " if a publisher is making a subscription offer outside of the app, the same (or better) offer be made inside the app" That reads to me like they will be required to offer their subscription services in-app.
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    • evilduck 16y ago
      I hope your interpretation is the right one, but it's still problematic in that Amazon can't offer their subscriptions in-app without price matching instead of (cost + 30%). I don't know the exact breakdown, but I'm pretty sure the iPad is not the primary Kindle reading device. Adding a useful feature like in-app subscription purchases now has a huge negative incentive for Amazon.
  • xbryanx 16y ago
    I don't think this means that you are required to build subscription functionality into your app if your app's company offers any sort of subscriptions. So if the Kindle app on iOS doesn't support subscriptions yet, then they aren't compelled to do so, right?