{"id":7945,"date":"2011-02-07T09:39:57","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T14:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=7945"},"modified":"2011-02-07T09:39:57","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T14:39:57","slug":"new-apple-ipad-apps-eat-third-party-profits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=7945","title":{"rendered":"New Apple iPad Apps Eat Third Party Profits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Apple goes after Amazon.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/218853\/will_apple_close_the_ebook_on_kindle.html\" target=\"_self\"><strong>PCWorld<\/strong><\/a> reports on <strong>Apple&#8217;s <\/strong>recent changes to its Apps policy that saw the rejection of\u00c2\u00a0 the <strong>Sony Reader App<\/strong>, and now might imperil <strong>Amazon&#8217;s Kindle<\/strong> presence on the <strong>iPad<\/strong>. The changes will only allow eReader Apps that support in-App purchases that amount to <strong>30%<\/strong> of the cover price going to Apple. Since the agency model recently adopted by eBook retailers only allows 30% of the book price for the seller, then it appears that Apple wants all of the profits on the sale.<\/p>\n<p>This is an unsustainable business model, so the eBook industry waits and watches as the story develops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PCWorld reports on Apple&#8217;s recent changes to its Apps policy that saw the rejection of\u00c2\u00a0 the Sony Reader App, and now might imperil Amazon&#8217;s Kindle presence on the iPad. The changes will only allow eReader Apps that support in-App purchases that amount to 30% of the cover price going to Apple. Since the agency model &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=7945\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,8,12,15,14,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7945"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7950,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7945\/revisions\/7950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}