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Amazon Kindle App Store Download Terms Restrict Developers

Posted by Editor on Jan 22, 2010 in Amazon Kindle, Tablets

Engadget and Daring Fireball point out the Amazon’s recently announced app active content store is going to make it nearly impossible for developers to add any sort of internet connectivity without incurring hefty download fees. So let’s see, 16 shades of gray, limited motion and no connectivity. Fuuuun.

We were wondering how Kindle’s impending active content (read: apps) would be harnessing that free Whispernet bandwidth. As it turns out, there’s just a smidgen allowed for gratis. According to the terms laid out by Amazon, there’s a 70 / 30 revenue split, with that smaller percentage going to Bezos and co. “net of delivery fees of $0.15 / MB.” The price tiers is a little simpler: apps can be free if their download over 3G is less than 1MB and they use less than 100KB per month, per user.