Amazon Kindle book purchases are the victim of the next Google Play billing

follow her move earlier To pull Audible audiobook purchases from the Play Store app, Amazon is also discontinuing Kindle digital book purchases on Android. Of course, the Google Play purchase campaign is to blame. Starting on June 1, Google will require all Play Store apps to use Google Play billing for digital purchases or face removal from the Market. Google Play billing has technically been in the rules for a while, but Google is ending a laissez-faire enforcement policy that effectively allowed companies to operate their billing systems.

When visiting the Amazon app, you can still purchase physical books, but digital purchases now show a “Why can’t I buy from the app?” link instead of buy button. The Amazon link displays a popup that says, “To stay compliant with the Google Play Store policies, you will no longer be able to purchase new content from the app. You can create an in-app reading list and purchase on [the] Amazon from your browser.

Amazon Music purchases on the Google Play app have also been discontinued. The move makes Amazon’s Google Play app compatible with the iOS app, which also doesn’t allow digital purchases. On Android, Amazon pushes users to the website, where they can still purchase digital content or sign up for an unlimited subscription, which avoids shutting down a Play Store purchase.

Google Play billing takes a percentage of in-app purchases (usually 30 percent, though The media can be as low as 10 percent), and several major companies have responded to the rule change by removing purchases from their Android apps. Epic Games is drag google Back in court over this issue, while Barnes & Noble ended up disabling digital purchases on their Android devices. Companies that don’t use Google Play for in-app purchases have technically been banned from releasing app updates since March 31, and on June 1, apps that use unapproved billing will be removed from the Play Store.

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