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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by bombcar on Thursday March 21, 2024 @12:53PM (#39781139)
Authors often receive much less than that for each book they sell - the best you can get is self-publishing on Kindle or something where you can net 70%: https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G200634560

People generally know this, and they generally don't care.

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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by devit on Thursday March 21, 2024 @08:09PM (#39785976)
Anyone can buy a laser printer, print any book, sell it, take 100% profits, and anyone can buy and read it.

But you can't do that with a mobile app because only Android users can use it, while anyone with an iPhone can't use the app unless you submit to Apple's rules.

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