Since Apple users are more affluent and buy the most content, this was a serious blow. Amazon is the latest company to suspend digital transactions on Android, in recent weeks Audible and Barnes and Noble ceased selling audiobooks and ebooks in their apps.Īmazon pulled the ability to buy digital books in their iOS app back in 2011, when Apple implemented a similar policy, where they forced companies to use their own billing system.
Considering Amazon is the largest ebook seller in the world, the paid commission to Google would be staggering. This has happened because Google has now mandated that all apps use their own billing system and will take a 30% cut out of each transaction. When trying to buy digital books, a new screen is displayed, letting customers know that in order to remain compliment with Google policy changes, buying ebooks is no longer supported.
Amazon has disabled the ability to buy ebooks in the Kindle app for Android.
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