Interesting news from MacRumors:

Apple has quietly changed its guidelines on the pricing of In-App Subscriptions on the App Store. There are no longer any requirements that a subscription be the “same price or less than it is offered outside the app”. There are no longer any guidelines about price at all. Apple also removed the requirement that external subscriptions must be also offered as an in-app purchase.

The updated section 11.13 (now 11.14) of the App Store Review Guidelines now has no reference to content offered in the IAP having to be the same price or less than its price outside of the app. Apple now only demands apps not have a ‘buy now’ button that takes them outside of the app.

This is a smart move from Apple, not least with an Amazon touchscreen tablet rumoured to be on the way, from the one company that has the infrastructure and smarts to seriously take on the iPad in the areas where it matters.