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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
Speak for yourself. I just did a trial run for a purchase from the home page of the Kindle app on my iPod touch and it took me 4 extra keystrokes to get to the bookmarked Kindle store.
That's a big PITA and it's a good thing I don't read on my touch or I'd be really ticked off by this change.
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(a suggestion: Save the Kindle Store bookmark to Home screen and it is easier than launching the browser and finding a bookmark there.)
It's an especially large PITA if you have just finished reading a book sample and decide you'd like to purchase it. The 'Buy Now' link is no longer functional, so you have to search for the book in Kindle Store, which is considerably more than 4 keystrokes.
I agree this is an Apple mistake, but it will be pretty impossible for anyone (even Apple) to figure out if it was justified in terms of increased profitability. I know it isn't going to drive me to purchase anything in the iBookstore if that's what their thinking was—they need to increase the value proposition of iBookstore if they want me to buy there, by dropping DRM or at least making it possible to export to Adobe DRM so I can read my purchases should my iOS device stop working.