{"id":264304,"date":"2010-02-03T06:43:51","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T11:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"tag:contentnext.com,2010-02-02:article\/419-amazons-stanza-bows-to-apples-e-book-sharing-request"},"modified":"2010-02-03T06:43:51","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T11:43:51","slug":"updated-amazons-stanza-bows-to-apples-e-book-sharing-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/264304","title":{"rendered":"Updated: Amazon’s Stanza Bows To Apple’s E-book Sharing Request"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Does Apple’s iBooks ambition mean a new DRM regime for existing<\/i> e-book app makers? Less than a week after the new iBooks store was announced alongside the iPad, the Amazon-owned Stanza iPhone e-books app has released an upgrade<\/a>, the version notes for which read: “Removed ability to share books via USB as required by Apple<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

Amongst the leading iPhone e-book apps, Stanza allowed users to transfer books from their computers to the handset using both cable and WiFi via an accompanying desktop application. The WiFi sync feature remains; it’s unclear why the wired transfer feature alone has been nobbled, the wireless method means Stanza Desktop<\/a> remains effectively a free book server.\n<\/p>\n

Amazon’s Kindle, iPad’s existing e-book rival, already had a Kindle iPhone app of its own, but Amazon acquired Stanza developer Lexcycle<\/a> in a further strategic move in April 2009. On Stanza’s first birthday in July, Lexcycle said the app had clocked up<\/a> two million downloads and generated 12 million e-book downloads; some paid, some free. In other words, Amazon’s existing place in the iOS e-book apps market is one of the biggest challenges, if challenges exist, to Apple (NSDQ: AAPL<\/a>) making a success of its upcoming iBooks store.<\/p>\n

Stanza’s forums have been hearing one<\/a> or two<\/a> complaints from users. Lexcycle tells TechCrunch<\/a> it’s “forbidden from discussing the specifics of our conversations with Apple on this matter”. Apple previously required<\/a> developer DigiDNA to remove a similar desktop USB file transfer feature from its FileAid app, though that decision was later turned around.<\/p>\n

Update<\/b>: Apple tells us: “We requested Stanza remove the USB functionality in their app as it was a simple case of the developer using private APIs in violation of the developer agreement<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

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Does Apple’s iBooks ambition mean a new DRM regime for existing e-book app makers? Less than a week after the new iBooks store was announced alongside the iPad, the Amazon-owned Stanza iPhone e-books app has released an upgrade, the version notes for which read: “Removed ability to share books via USB as required by Apple.” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":705,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/705"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}