Hands on With Amazon’s Kindle Cloud

The recent change in Apple’s App Store Terms of Service precluded companies, like Amazon, from having external links to content in their applications. So, in the Kindle app for iOS, Amazon could not have a “browse the store” button or link that took users outside of the appstore to purchase content. Why? That was so Apple could get an additional revenue cut from content sold through applications (something which it couldn’t get if the user was going to the Amazon site, for example, to process...