Thread: Apple iPad claims eReader advantage
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Old 02-27-2010, 07:30 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by pilotbob View Post
I recently read on Teleread that Apple will not allow the amazon app to purchase ebooks from within the app...

I hope that Amazon fights this because that seems like a monopolistic tacit to me.

Wasn't a new feature of the most recent iPhone/iPod Touch OS to allow for within app purchasing?

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This is already the case with the iPhone Kindle and B&N apps. It's not a big deal. You just press a button to go to the browser and buy your book, and then click a link which takes you back to the app when you're done.

The within-app purchasing was added as a feature in 3.0, but Apple takes 30% cut. Safe to say that Amazon did not implement their app using Apple's APIs, and it got pulled.
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