Apple Says Some Form of "No" to Sony Reader App
"Chris" <[email protected]>
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/01/technology/01apple.html?_r=4
Sorry about the headline, but this is not an easy item to sum up. Apple is tell Sony to keep Sony Reader Store purchases "via apple", and not via a web browser on the Apple device.
It's all a little confusing until you see the effect .. Apple will only allow purchases in-app as long as Apple gets a cut, listed here as 30%. And given most publishers interest in moving to an agency model, this would appear to squeeze apps like Kindle right out of the market.
If applied to the Kindle - and I can't see any reason why it wouldn't - that would either mean that Amazon would lose 30% off retail for Kindle-app purchases, or that you can only read on the Kindle-app, not buy.
This looks very much like Apple deciding it wants all of a small pie, not a portion of a very large pie. With the consistency of experience between the "Sony Reader" and "Sony Reader App" or "Kindle" and "Kindle App", the incentive for vendors such as Sony and Amazon to recommend or even support the Apple platform will vanish overnight.
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