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Originally Posted by fjtorres
That is exactly what Amazon does and so far it has been described as being forbidden.
Until Apple changes its mind (good luck waiting for that) *any* form of sale triggers the poison-pill clause; direct, indirect, or linked. The only known-good approaches are to cave or take out all sales mechanisms from the app.
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Do you have a link? How does Apple justify that one? Kindle doesn't sell anything in-app. They have a link to a web site, you purchase stuff on that web site through the browser, and then the app pings the server and downloads your book.
I'll admit that I haven't read Apple's 30% royalty rules for what does or does not qualify, but I don't see how they could ask for 30% of purchases on a web site that just happened to be linked from an app. Does that mean if I wrote an app that is nothing but a link to Amazon's Kindle mobile site I would have to pay Apple 30%?
Purchasing in the app directly pretty clearly violates their requirement (they want you to use iTunes in-app purchasing for that), but how could opening a website in the standard Safari browser be verboten?
Edit: Also, Amazon is clearly not leaving iOS. They keep updating Kindle, and Apple keeps approving it. I seriously doubt Amazon is paying Apple 30% of every Kindle book sold. Maybe the moral of the story is that you have to be Amazon in order to play in Apple's ebook space, but I suspect it's more likely that the redirect-to-website method is a valid approach. Same thing with Bluefire, Nook, etc.