Amazon then doubled down on their official app for Android. To get around this issue, Amazon developed their K indle Cloud Reader, which was designed to work with Safari and allowed people to buy and read books right in the browser. 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. The message displayed to shoppers suggests it's Google's fault for not permitting eBook sales, but it's Amazon's decision to just pull the functionality.Amazon has disabled the ability to buy ebooks in the Kindle app for Android. But, as of June 1st, 2022, Google promised to actually enforce the policies and make companies respect its billing system rules, threatening to remove them if they did not comply.Īs a result, Amazon decided to stop allowing users to buy Kindle books via its apps, whether we're talking about the Amazon app or the Kindle one. Of course, as everyone knows, not all sellers have been abiding by this rule, including Amazon. In doing so, Google gets a share of the sale. More specifically, as per Google's Play Console Help page, Google expects apps to use the company's own billing system to sell digital goods. While Google has similar rules for its Google Play Store, they have seldom been enforced.
The company made this move in order to avoid paying extra fees on digital goods, as per the Apple App Store rules. In 2011, Amazon stopped offering digital book purchases via its iOS app.
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