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Originally Posted by toddos
As best I can tell, none of the big sellers (Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo) have commented at all, nor pulled their apps, and at least Amazon is actively updating the Kindle app frequently. The iFlow CEO guy knee-jerked and preemptively killed his own app. No other ebook apps have been killed, smaller readers like BlueFire are still around (though perhaps this might be why they've had no updates in ~3 months), and Apple's even changed the rules several times. Until Apple starts rejecting ebook apps or kicking them out of the app store, this is still premature..
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Or it could be from an entire different reason. The problem is only related to the books that are on the agency model. For any other books, they can still make money. And if Amazon makes the sale, even if they don't make a profit, they still get the customer. If the whole thing will die and people can't read kindle books on their iPad anymore, they might consider buying a kindle if the alternative is buying all their books again from the iBook store.