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Brief explanation and full press release here: iTunes shocker! Apple announces App Store subscriptions -- Engadget
This whole process will weigh heavily in my continuing with the iPad if stores such as Hulu, Netflix, Amazon, B&N have to pull out.
There is no way that Amazon or B&N (among others) can offer to sell ebooks "in app" for the same price as the iBooks store and give Apple a 30% cut of the money. The only work around I see is going to be for all these type of apps to remove the in app link to their web store. This would enable them to still sell and allow you to download your material to their apps.
This is an indication, for me at least, it may well be time to begin looking at the other alternatives that are on their way to the market.
I definitely no longer plan on upgrading to the next version iPad until all of this shakes out.
Voting with one's feet or dollars is usually what gets thing like this taken care of. I wonder how this model would fly on the MAS?