On Thu, 17 Feb 2011, Brad Knowles wrote: > On Feb 17, 2011, at 1:24 PM, Benjamin Krueger wrote: > >> Chew on this ladies and gentlemen. The real problem isn't that Apple is >> going to eat 30% of sales on their own platform. The real problem is >> that Apple's contract forbids you from charging *less* for the same >> product anywhere else, and forces you to offer content for sale on >> their platform if it is for sale anywhere else. > > That's only for subscriptions. That means that if a newspaper or > magazine provider wants to provide subscriptions on the iOS products, > they can't lock users into their own proprietary subscription handling > system. Those users who want to buy those subscriptions must be allowed > to use Apple's platform as an alternative if that's what they want, and > those providers have to give it to the customers at the same price.
no, it isn't only for subscriptions. the first case where it came up was for the nook app, which is a application to read books that you purchase from B&N, not just subscriptions. I'm seeing a lot of talk about this on the kindle forums as well. today the iOS kindle app doesn't let you buy books directly in the app, instead it opens a browser to the amazon site and you buy the books that way (and then they are available in all your kindle accounts) according to the new policy, this is against the rules in several ways. 1. they aren't allowed to redirect out to a browser to buy books 2. they have to change the app to allow you to buy books directly through the apple store 3. books purchased through the browser don't pay apple 30% of the cost of the book (and given that under some conditions amazon pays royalties of 70% of the retail cost of the book, apple is demanding everything else) David Lang _______________________________________________ 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/
