Amazon has enabled in-app purchases for e-books, manga, and different digital content material on the Kindle app for Android, the identical app you’ll obtain from Google Play. Though this has solely been stay for just a few weeks, Amazon has not drawn consideration to this matter. This is good news for anybody who needs to purchase books within the app with out having to open an internet browser, buy books, after which sync them with the app. There are fewer hoops to leap by.
When the Kindle app first launched on Google Play, it was straightforward to purchase books. Nonetheless, Amazon eliminated the power to buy books within the app in 2022 when Google mandated that each one in-app transactions have to be performed by Google. Audible and Barnes and Noble adopted swimsuit.
Huge adjustments have been made within the European Union, India, and different international locations to power Google and Apple to make use of different billing methods for app builders. This permits firms like Amazon to promote digital content material and use their billing system as a substitute of all the pieces going by Google.
In the meantime, within the USA, the U.S. District Court docket for the Northern District of California ordered Google to make a sequence of adjustments to handle its anti-competitive conduct. Beginning November 1st, 2024, it should enable app makers to cost customers with their billing methods outdoors the Android ecosystem for 3 years.
It’s terrific that readers can as soon as once more buy e-books on the Kindle app from Google Play. Many extra folks learn on their smartphones and tablets than on a Kindle e-reader. I’m ready for the iPhone and iPad’s Kindle app to permit purchases once more.
Michael Kozlowski is the editor-in-chief at Good e-Reader and has written about audiobooks and e-readers for the previous fifteen years. Newspapers and web sites such because the CBC, CNET, Engadget, Huffington Publish and the New York Instances have picked up his articles. He Lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
