How is it even legal for Apple and Google to do this?

[winb83]

You can no longer buy Kindle eBooks on Android

Amazon has disabled the ability to buy ebooks in the Kindle app for Android. 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. This has happened because Google...

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Both mandate all apps on their platforms use their billing. Both take a 30% cut of anything sold from that billing. Almost overnight all the digital bookstores like Kindle and Nook pretty much had to stop selling books on those mobile platforms because giving those companies a 30% cut when book publishers set the prices makes it unprofitable to sell digital books. Now Google and Apple are the only digital bookstores on their respective platforms. Even in the Microsoft antitrust days I'm not even sure it got that bad.

 

[humminbird]

it crept up slowly and the lawmakers who can change it have NO Fukien clue how tech works it's astonishing

 

[Fatboi1]

Can't you just purchase an ebook on the web(Safari/Chrome) on the device and sync to the App?

 

[raf]

Digital merchandise is pretty new, so there probably aren't much laws regarding how long a company has to support a platform and purchases made on that platform. Start petitions and contact your local politicians.

 

[winb83]

Can't you just purchase an ebook on the web(Safari/Chrome) on the device and sync to the App?

Yeah that’s what I do. Either that or add it to my book list and buy it on a PC later. I used to buy them from the Amazon app though not the Kindle one. I hate reading actual books on my phone so I don’t really use the Kindle app still I think it’s messed up they can suppress competition like that knowing it benefits their digital stores.

 

[Koba St]

Who cares. I’ve had the kindle app on my iPhone for years and I’ll always go to the Amazon site to buy the books and read it on my kindle app. The process literally takes less than a minute. It’s really not a big deal.