Nice to hear from someone without vested interests in this ebooks thing.
Now, about that "what they offer is far from special" line. Are you serious? If what they offer is far from special, how come nobody else offers something like it?
Have you seen how Lulu proposes you format your books? Have you seen any Amazon kindle book maker? Have you seen the Blurb photo books app? Not even close.
Also, there's nothing amazing that "Apple thinks can get away with". What the said is only:
1) Here's our huge store with a market of 50 million devices.
2) Here's the reading program we have made for them.
3) Here's a free app to format your book content.
4) IF you want to sell something you have formatted and exported from our app, you have to sell it through out store, and we get 70%.
This would be reasonable even if the app (3) was paid for.
Actually, in that case, it would be like the "iOS membership program"'s $100.
Now, about that "what they offer is far from special" line. Are you serious? If what they offer is far from special, how come nobody else offers something like it?
Have you seen how Lulu proposes you format your books? Have you seen any Amazon kindle book maker? Have you seen the Blurb photo books app? Not even close.
Also, there's nothing amazing that "Apple thinks can get away with". What the said is only:
1) Here's our huge store with a market of 50 million devices.
2) Here's the reading program we have made for them.
3) Here's a free app to format your book content.
4) IF you want to sell something you have formatted and exported from our app, you have to sell it through out store, and we get 70%.
This would be reasonable even if the app (3) was paid for.
Actually, in that case, it would be like the "iOS membership program"'s $100.