Quote:
Originally Posted by stonetools
First of all neither Kobo or any of the other booksellers have the moral high ground on this. You can ONLY buy from the Kobo Bookstore on the Kobo reader in the ordinary course. You can ONLY buy from Google Books on the Ireader. Faced with such exclusivity, Apple's limitations are mild.
Did you really buy your Ipad with the expectations that your methods of accessing the non-Apple book stores would remain EXACTLY the same? Thought not.
Apple's change in policy has little to do with e-bookstores and a LOT to do with its new features (Newsstand, Icloud, video streaming services) that it plans to introduce in Ios5 come the fall . As such , Apple would not be "backing down" on this as this policy change is part of a much bigger initiative by Apple.
|
ACtually this is way apple wants it so that they can force a 30 percent hike in ebook cost to the consumer to meet their currently high priced ebooks which for the most part seem to be about 30 percent higher then avg.
You decide.. but honestly seeing as the iphone connects a to a cell netowrk or wifi we are not going through any apple infastructure to buy our books Insisting on a 30 percent revenue share is just to push the competitors out of the way of its poor quality ibook app.. and it really is that bad.
Doesnt this remind you of the bully at the school lunch line wanting protection money?