I've realised that even if this does only mean subscriptions - as I think is likely - it still gives Amazon a problem with selling content.
From the press release:
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Apple does require that if a publisher chooses to sell a digital subscription separately outside of the app, that same subscription offer must be made available, at the same price or less, to customers who wish to subscribe from within the app. In addition, publishers may no longer provide links in their apps (to a web site, for example) which allow the customer to purchase content or subscriptions outside of the app.
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Now, Amazon does sell digital subscriptions via their website, and that content can be read in the app. Therefore by these rules they would have to a) offer Apple's service within their app for those subscriptions, and b) remove the links to the web store from the app.
So even if the rules don't apply to content, they are worded in such a way that they would break the way Amazon sells content.
It seems to say that if Amazon are in the magazine subscription business
on the web, then they can't sell
content via a link from an app on iOS.
Graham