I just wanted to come back and report on my findings about loading non-Kobo books to the Kobo Touch via the browser. Last night (while in bed

) I used the browser to visit the Project Gutenberg site and download two ebooks to my ereader. Those ebooks showed up on the Kobo's main screen (which all new books do) and I was able to read them.
Reading DRMed ebooks might be a problem, though. I imagine those purchases would still have to go through ADE before they could be read.
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Originally Posted by juxtapose
It looks like NO company that sells ebooks are letting Apple get 30% of all their sales. Not only does it screw up their entire pipeline of publisher/author/book seller fees but it gives Apple far too much money.
Think if Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo and others all giving 30% of each ebook sale. Apple would make hundreds of of millions of dollars in a few years. I don't see any ebook selling company caving into Apples rules and letting them get a cut of each sale. All the apps will just pull the stores from the app and thats the end of it,.
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It's not just a matter of Apple becoming rich off the backs of other bookstores. Under the Agency pricing model (which all six big publishers use) a bookstore gets 30% of each sale. Apple knows this since they were the ones who first brokered the Agency agreements with various publishers. When Apple asks these bookstores to hand over 30% of a sale, they're really saying that they expect these bookstores to make *nothing* on those sales.
As for non-Agency books ... while I have no facts to back this up, I would guess that many of those books are the lower priced ones on the various ebook stores. I doubt the bookstores are making 30% from each book sold, so they'd lose money on every single book sold. The
only option open to ebook stores, then, under a proposed model where they'd see at best 0% from each sale, at worst a loss on each sale, would be to remove the in-app link to the store. I'm sure Apple knew this, and doubt very much that they actually expected anyone to agree to their prososed deal.