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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 a
by 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 agoI 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 agoSafari 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 agoAmazon'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.