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You can already buy books from Amazon/B&N/Kobo/... through Safari (or alternative browsers) on the iPad, Apple haven't done anything to block that. What they have done is made them remove any links from within the reading app. You can use the iPad to buy books from any of the major ebook stores, and to read books from any of the major ebook stores.
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The other point to make is that all of the ebook stores have decided to agree to Apple's policies and remain on the app store, so it seems that they see value in proving their apps to iOS users, even if selling to them is now a more convoluted process.
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I'm glad you like it...looks good for you.
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What doesn't have value is Apple’s confiscatory practice of demanding 30% of all in-app sales. So what Kobo and others are doing is moving their apps off of the device and utilizing the power of HTML 5 to do the processing in Safari (or any other browser) instead. This is a serious blow to Apple’s walled garden since most other apps that Apple would like to block can be handled similarly. In effect, Kobo has just blown a hole in the garden wall. |
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So, are Kobo making a HTML5 web app like Ibis Reader then?
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So it would seem.
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Firstly Kobo haven't done anything, they've just made an announcement. Secondly this is hardly anything new. You know how you cant use Flash in an iOS browser? There are sites that provide that functionality through redirects, Apple don't seem to have collapsed yet. |
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I caught the same news through a mediabistro article. Pretty interesting stuff, ne? The plot thickens...
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