Clearly a very interesting subject.

I guess we will have to see what all the publishers decide to do.

I still think business is business, from Apple's point of view I can see that they have created the platform, have set up the app store and have the right to set it's terms. I think the only thing they are doing wrong is fixing the pricing to match subscriptions made outside the app store, surely that can't be fair.

From the publishers point of view they get access to a huge audience in return they have to give up a bit of the profit they would have lost in traditional distribution methods anyway.

Agreed that a newsstand makes no money from a subscription made directly with a magazine, but he does if the user has to come in his store to pick it up on a regular basis.

Time will tell.

Cheers

Cris