Amazon no longer allows purchases in Audible, Kindle and Music apps on Android

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Amazon no longer allows purchases in Audible, Kindle and Music apps on Android

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While Amazon seeks strong alliances with Xiaomi for its new TVs and these use FireOS, it is now moving away from Android by not allowing in-app payments on Kindle, Audible and Music. In other words, if the payment option you usually use is no longer available, it’s not an error.

New payment guidelines for everyone

Via Engadget, Amazon already announced this change this would prevent Android from using payments in these mentioned apps. Indeed, he sent an email informing his customers so that they are informed of the change made.

It’s all due to new guidelines from google which will start running on June 1. The big G will require all developers to process payments for goods and services through the Google Play payment system.

Kindle users on Android

Kindle users on Android

The free Android

The change is due to the fact that Amazon era of developers who have been authorized use your own integrated payment system for these purchases.

Now what Amazon has done is olimpically pass from this system from Google Play to avoid paying the commission for each purchase. And it did for Audible, Kindle, and Music apps.

Nook also missed payments

Nook also missed payments

The free Android

We are not the only ones to have taken this radical decision, since Barnes & Nobles has eliminated payments of the Android version of your Nook app. And the thing will not stop there, since even the parent company of Tinder has already engaged in litigation with the big G for this reason.

The only way out is the tests that Google is doing with Spotify for third-party payment systems, so we’ll see if it ends in a good way and in the end they all go through this alternative.

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