That link, which opens the iOS browser and displays Amazon's Web-based e-bookstore, is currently the easiest way for Kindle app users to purchase new books.Īmazon did not immediately reply to a request for comment on the new rules, or answer questions about how customers will be able to buy books and whether it will continue to offer an iOS e-reader. To meet Apple's guidelines, Amazon must remove its 'Shop in Kindle Store' link from its Kindle application. Later Tuesday, Apple spokeswoman Trudy Muller confirmed that those rules apply not only to newspaper and magazine publishers, but also to content sellers like, which offers a Kindle app for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. 'Apple processes all payments, keeping the same 30% share that it does today for other In-App Purchases,' the company said. Consumers select a subscription period, then click to order, which dings the credit card associated with their iTunes account.

'Apple does require that if a publisher chooses to sell a digital subscription separately outside of the app, that same subscription offer must be made available, at the same price or less, to customers who wish to subscribe from within the app,' Apple's statement read.įor periodicals such as magazines and newspapers, publishers can set the length of a subscription to weekly, monthly, bi-monthly, quarterly, bi-yearly or yearly. Subscriptions and other digital content can still be sold outside the App Store - thus sidestepping the 30% cut - said Apple, but the company will now demand that if that's the case, the app also include in-Store purchases. Publishers and content sellers must remove any links within their apps to outside-the-App Store purchasing options, Apple said, a requirement that means must eliminate the link to the Kindle Store that it currently provides in its iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad apps. Jobs, who is on an indefinite medical leave, is reportedly still heavily involved with company decisions, working from home and conferencing with other executives by telephone.

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