Amazon now has a ‘Get book’ button in its iOS Kindle app

The Kindle iOS mobile app present includes a Get Book fastener for purchasing ebooks. | Screenshot: Amazon

Following a ruling connected April 30th by the Epic Games v. Apple justice Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, Apple tin nary longer cod a 27 percent committee connected purchases made extracurricular of apps oregon restrict however developers tin nonstop users to alternate outgo options. Apple has appealed the decision, but is besides complying with it successful the interim, prompting respective companies to announce app updates making it easier for users to wage for subscriptions and services. That present includes Amazon’s iOS Kindle app. Contrary to anterior limitations, determination is present a salient orangish “Get book” fastener connected Kindle app’s publication listings.

“We regularly marque improvements to our apps to assistance guarantee we are providing customers the astir convenient acquisition possible,” Amazon spokesperson Tim Gillman told The Verge implicit email. “By selecting ‘Get Book’ wrong the Kindle for iOS app, customers tin present implicit their acquisition done their mobile web browser.”

Amazon wasn’t the archetypal institution to merchandise a dedicated speechmaking instrumentality with an E Ink screen. Companies similar Sony bushed them to the punch by a mates of years. What helped marque the Kindle popular, and arguably destined to predominate the e-reader market, was that you could bargain books close connected the device, adjacent if you didn’t person Wi-Fi entree acknowledgment to Amazon’s present discontinued cellular Whispernet service.

Before today’s updates, buying books wasn’t a diagnostic you’d find successful the Kindle mobile app pursuing app store regularisation changes Apple implemented successful 2011 that required developers to region links oregon buttons starring to alternate ways to marque purchases. You could search for books that offered samples for download, adhd them to a buying list, and work titles you already own, but you couldn’t really bargain titles done the Kindle oregon Amazon app, oregon adjacent spot their prices. 

To debar having to wage Apple’s 30 percent chopped of in-app purchases, and the 27 percent taxation connected alternate outgo methods Apple introduced successful January 2024, Amazon antecedently required you to sojourn and login to its online store done a device’s web browser to acquisition ebooks connected your iPhone oregon iPad, which were past synchronized to the app. It was a cumbersome process compared to the streamlined acquisition of buying ebooks straight connected a Kindle e-reader.

Amazon astir apt isn’t going to alteration its caput astir avoiding Apple’s 30 percent chopped connected ebook sales, but the update to the Kindle app present makes it overmuch easier to acquisition ebooks connected your iPhone for those times erstwhile your Kindle e-reader doesn’t person a reliable Wi-Fi connection.

However, there’s inactive the accidental Apple could triumph its appeal, forcing Amazon to undo these updates and improvements and erstwhile again marque buying ebooks connected iPhones overcomplicated and inconvenient.