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.
The problem is that now, if you sell a subscription and you have an app in the Apple store, you are now forced to do enable subscriptions through the app, or have your application removed from the store. Using the independent publisher table at Barnes and Noble, if one of the things you offer is a magazine, you MUST sell that magazine at your B&N table, and give B&N 30% of that revenue generated from the B&N table. Oh, and that supscription price must not be higher than the lowest price you offer outside of B&N. This is the problem as I see it. -- John H. Robinson, IV [email protected] http (((( WARNING: I cannot be held responsible for the above, sbih.org ( )(:[ as apparently my cats have learned how to type. spiders.html (((( _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
