[weavie]

I thought surely you can buy ebooks on the Kindle app for iOS. But a quick search and you are right - nope, you cannot buy books on the Kindle app for iOS. The option just isn't there.

[jonknee]

And you can't even present a link to purchase digital goods through a browser... You can open Mobile Safari and search Amazon for a Kindle book, but you can't use an Amazon app of any sort to do part of it.

[tzahola]

Weird, considering the fact that the Bandcamp app lets you buy music digitally via PayPal. Am I missing some important difference between the two?

[jonknee]

I just downloaded Bandcamp for iOS and under Digital Album I see "Not available for purchase on this device" along with links to purchase the physical vinyl or CD.

[tzahola]

Hm, you’re right. I didn’t notice it but the album I tried it was “digital download + limited edition print”... mea culpa.

[nihonde]

They must be paying Apple their percentage of the proceeds, unless they have an exception.

[tzahola]

I'm not sure. I've found this in the App Store Review Guidelines:

>3.1.5 (a) Physical Goods and Services Outside of the App: If your app enables people to purchase goods or services that will be consumed outside of the app, you must use purchase methods other than in-app purchase to collect those payments, such as Apple Pay or traditional credit card entry.

But if this applies to Bandcamp, then it would equally apply to Amazon... So I don't know.

[baby]

That part really blew my mind. I spent a good 20min trying to find out how to buy audiobooks on audible