Hi, I don't see why Apple would care if you could take the books off the device or not. It doesn't effect there bottom line either way. I suspect this is an Amazon restriction. Like you said, its there app after all. What could be stopping them from allowing access to the actual files via iTunes?
Ricardo Walker [email protected] Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On May 4, 2013, at 11:25 AM, Neal Ewers <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, I’m not sure I can confirm the Amazon oddity. I can see all the books > on my Wife’s Kindle reader just by plugging it in to my computer and there > they all are. I can copy them all to some place else as well. So I am > beginning to believe that Apple just doesn’t want to have you able to do > this. Yet, the app is made by amazon. So who knows. My suspicion is that this > might be one of the things Amazon had to do in order to please Apple, but > that’s just a hunch. > The bottom line is that the iPhone app behaves very differently in this > regard than does the kindle itself. > > Neal > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Keith Watson > Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2013 8:08 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Purchased Kindle books do not appear in iTunes when looking at > the device connected > > Actually if you think about it, Amazon did this intentionally. The only area > that you can get to is the Docs area through iTunes. One more DRM attempt. So > it's not actually a Apple oddity it's an Amazon oddity. > > Just saying' > > Keith > > On May 3, 2013, at 8:52 PM, Neal Ewers <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, Raul and I had a go at seeing if we could find Kindle books in iTunes by > looking at the device, checking apps, and going to sharing to see what could > be saved to the computer. I don’t know how this works on the Mac, but what we > discovered was that when we selected Kindle, the tree view was blank. > Actually, free books showed up, but the book he had just purchased and the > one I have did not show up at all. Other apps in the list had a populated > tree view and thus you got a save button and could put the items where you > wanted. However, the save button did not show up under the Kindle tree view > if the books you had on the device were purchased. > > Just another little Apple oddity. > > Neal > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
