Agency Model for Professional Edition?

Question

Someone from Adobe on an earlier post mentioned that when one has their own DPS Professional Edition subscription, they may create apps on behalf of other clients and then their clients may either choose you to host and sell their content with Apple or do it themselves. This is known to be the Agency Model and I was told, several times in fact, that this was not available for any edition of DPS except Enterprise Edition.
I would appreciate an official answer from Adobe on this matter. Thanks.

Answer 1

Lohrii Alo, do you work for Adobe?
First, I am the publisher of Focus Publishing. We publish Focus Magazine, Folios and Exposures as well as work with photographers who are looking to publish fine art books with high quality printing.
I've been working with Adobe products since '95 right before the PowerMacs came out. So I was working on Photoshop 3.0 with the old LCIII's. Anyway, about 8 months ago I was faced with a problem. Photographers want to have their work published and want to be paid for it. So I provided a solution to their problem using Adobe DPS; building an app for a photographer that would get their work out there and they would be paid off of sales of their app downloads.
The problem is that Apple absolutely refuses to publish anything e-book in its own app without a great deal of interactivity and even then, approval is still not guaranteed. The solution was to do what I'm already doing with Folios and Exposures: Create an entire fine art photography magazine revolving around their photography. Then, I offer the same solution to galleries who want to publish exhibition catalogues but can't afford the printing costs: Develop and sell a digital exhibition catalogue and sell it inside of the App Store.
So far, we only have one title that has been finished, but we're working on 4 others and have a lot of interest from other people. Everything is published under my Apple developer account (Focus Publishing). I have a 2 year agreement with the photographers that guarantees me not only their monthly payment but also that I will be the exclusive distributor of their content on any of the mobile device platforms as an app for the contract term. If they want to cancel - they can as long as they pay me for the remainder of the contract.
We share a DPS account with someone else, but it's only Professional Edition. I sure would like to have more of the bells and whistles that Enterprise Edition serves up, but I'm not there yet financially.
Anyway, as long as I am the one distributing their content, I don't see any problem with this business model if I'm expecting a percentage of sales.
The premise of your question is that the client actually wants to deal with Apple, Amazon, Android, etc. and DPS and wants to update the App when updates become available. Most people don't want to deal with that and want to actually only deal with their own business.