> That's funded by the cut they take. Apple / Google do not need to take a 30% cut of every e-book ever sold to fund their review. That's absurd and illogical.

> That's funded by the cut they take. Apple / Google do not need to take a 30% cut of every e-book ever sold to fund their review. That's absurd and illogical. One estimate is that Amazon sells 487,000,000 ebooks a year. If we assume they cost $10 each, that's almost a $1.5 billion cut for Apple and Google. It does not cost $1.5 billion for Apple and Google to review Kindle to make sure it doesn't damage devices.