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Well, this invalidates what I thought Amazon should do: remove all purchasing of books from the Kindle app and make it only able to download and read books boug

Well, this invalidates what I thought Amazon should do: remove all purchasing of books from the Kindle app and make it only able to download and read books bought from the website (which it would not link to). Apple's now saying, if you sell something somewhere else that can be shown in an iOS app, you need to also sell it through Apple for the same price. I guess when Amazon pulls the iOS app, I can break the DRM on the books I buy from them and read them on Stanza.

evilduck 16y ago
Some alternatives to yanking the app would be to adhere to the rule but make it laborious and sufficiently buried beneath menu layers that it becomes too difficult to use versus a link that breaks out to the web browser. Or begin charging on the AppStore for the Kindle app at a price point they believe will compensate for the losses.
- randrews 16y ago
  I didn't think of that but it's a good idea: charge $5 for the app (or whatever). People who have already bought it don't lose anything, people who do buy the app don't cost Amazon any money. Or maybe Amazon's margin is over 30% and they just won't care.
  - mlinsey 16y ago
    I doubt their margin is over 30%. Personally my bet is on an HTML5 kindle reader webapp. Only disadvantage is that you'd need a web connection, which you don't always have on iPad and iPod touch.
    - randrews 16y ago
      Safari on iOS does client-side storage, you could let someone read a stored book offline. It would make pirating them a little easier though. Not much easier because it's not exactly hard now, Calibre has a plugin that imports them and breaks the DRM. Heh, we could buy books from Amazon, de-DRM them, and read them in iBooks. It's probably the best reader software for the iPad other than Kindle.
  - bryanlarsen 16y ago
    Amazon's margin is exactly 30% for out of print ebooks they buy directly from the author. For others it varies depending on their deal with the publisher.
ryandvm 16y ago
> I guess when Amazon pulls the iOS app, I can break the DRM on the books I buy from them and read them on Stanza. Nobody can blame Amazon from pulling the iOS app. I'd be shocked if they don't. Apple is literally requesting all of Amazon's margins. I guess you can do whatever your ethics permit, but my takeaway is that perhaps you shouldn't be buying devices from such tyrannical manufacturers. The Honeycomb tablets cannot come soon enough...
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evilduck 16y ago

Some alternatives to yanking the app would be to adhere to the rule but make it laborious and sufficiently buried beneath menu layers that it becomes too difficult to use versus a link that breaks out to the web browser. Or begin charging on the AppStore for the Kindle app at a price point they believe will compensate for the losses.

randrews 16y ago
I didn't think of that but it's a good idea: charge $5 for the app (or whatever). People who have already bought it don't lose anything, people who do buy the app don't cost Amazon any money. Or maybe Amazon's margin is over 30% and they just won't care.
- mlinsey 16y ago
  I doubt their margin is over 30%. Personally my bet is on an HTML5 kindle reader webapp. Only disadvantage is that you'd need a web connection, which you don't always have on iPad and iPod touch.
  - randrews 16y ago
    Safari on iOS does client-side storage, you could let someone read a stored book offline. It would make pirating them a little easier though. Not much easier because it's not exactly hard now, Calibre has a plugin that imports them and breaks the DRM. Heh, we could buy books from Amazon, de-DRM them, and read them in iBooks. It's probably the best reader software for the iPad other than Kindle.
- bryanlarsen 16y ago
  Amazon's margin is exactly 30% for out of print ebooks they buy directly from the author. For others it varies depending on their deal with the publisher.

ryandvm 16y ago

> I guess when Amazon pulls the iOS app, I can break the DRM on the books I buy from them and read them on Stanza. Nobody can blame Amazon from pulling the iOS app. I'd be shocked if they don't. Apple is literally requesting all of Amazon's margins. I guess you can do whatever your ethics permit, but my takeaway is that perhaps you shouldn't be buying devices from such tyrannical manufacturers. The Honeycomb tablets cannot come soon enough...

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