On 02/17/2011 10:58 AM, Brad Knowles wrote:
> On Feb 17, 2011, at 2:04 PM, Josh Smift wrote:
>
>> Imagine if B&N allowed indie publishers to set up tables in their stores,
>> and sell their books there, but required them to give the store a 30% cut,
>> and to agree not to sell their books anywhere else for a lower price. That
>> doesn't seem unfair at all -- but if they announced this as a new policy,
>> after previously allowing indie publishers to set up tables for free, not
>> charging anything, and allowing them to sell wherever else they wanted
>> without restrictions, it would seem like a big change for the worse.
> I'm still not seeing this, because subscriptions is not something that has
> been previously available at all on iOS, except through external websites
> where you have to log in with your userid& password. That method won't
> change, so Apple is adding new functionality that was not previously
> available -- hence, there is no change from free to paid to get worked up
> about.
>
If you don't like it, vote with your feet, don't buy Apple. A number of
publishers have come out both for and against the 30%, maybe enough
noise to encourage Apple to reduce it in the interests of retaining
them. Content is the killer-app these days, and users will follow
(eventually)
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