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I want to sell books to kindle owners. I want to sell them on Amazon.com because that's the place all kindle owners look to for their books. And I don't want to pay Amazon anything.
Don't see anyone complaining about Amazon's lock over their ecosystem.
If you don't want to pay Apple's toll -- then make your content web accessible. Apple does not charge for any content accessible via their browser.
If you want to sell content via Apple's App store -- you have to pay Apple. You cannot get around this by giving out a free app, and then have that app link to your online web store.
This is like Target complaining that they can't make money by selling products in WalMart's stores because WalMart will charge Target what Target is charging it's content providers, leaving nothing left for Target.
Apple is a middle man -- and other middle men will have trouble paying charging enough to pay both Apple's toll and their own toll.
I bet Amazon simply removes the in app purchasing link from their kindle app and customers will have to know to go to the web to buy books.
Lee
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