First Read The Wall Street Journal will no longer sell subscriptions or other content directly through its iPhone and iPad apps, the paper reports this morning. Canadian e-book seller Kobo announced a similar policy change. At issue would appear to be Apple’s insistence that all in-app purchases on its devices be funneled through the iTunes App Store, where Apple takes a 30 percent cut of all transactions, rather than through a link to the seller’s own web site. Although Apple had appeared to relax enforcement of that rule in June, after stiff push-back from publishers, the moves by Kobo and...
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