John Gapper at Financial Times
The Kindle iPad app allows readers to buy books at the Kindle store through the iPad browser.
Apple is now presenting Amazon with a choice. Either it withdraws its iPad Kindle app or it allows Apple to take a 30 per cent cut of any Kindle e-book purchases on the iPad.
The Apple-Amazon standoff is intriguing because it involves two companies run by innovative, secretive, control freaks – Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos. Mr Besoz’s response will be one to savour.
This doesn’t make sense because Apple isn’t talking about ebooks purchased through the Kindle app - you can’t do that. You have to go into Safari, buy through that browser on Amazon.com, and then send it to your iPad, go back into the Kindle app, and download to read it there. I guess semantically they’re saying “links to a website” means a cut and that’s where they get that issue. Just send em to Amazon.com, I say.
That’s kind of odd. If I use an iPad and I use Safari to purchase a Kindle book on Amazon.com. You’re saying I can’t do that because I’m doing that on the iPad and it has a Kindle app? What if Amazon just creates a HTML5 webapp for Kindle?
They already did!! http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000579091
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They already did!! http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000579091
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I thought Jobs was on a “leave of absence”.
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