This is also true for the Android Kindle Book App.
So Amazon purposely provides no way for iOS Kindle book readers to buy Kindle books inside their iOS Kindle App. Amazon do not want to pay Apple their 30% commission for Kindle book purchases if made inside the iOS Kindle App. It's Amazon that is requiring Kindle book buyers on iOS, to purchase their Kindle books outside the iOS Kindle App. It's not Apple that is requiring Kindle book buyers to purchase their Kindle books outside the iOS Kindle App. Maybe Spotify can do it if Apple isn’t willing to go to the effort. I still believe the digital book market is ripe for disruption, including audiobooks, and Apple is just about the only company that can do it. Meanwhile Amazon won all it desired, ironically reduced competition for kindle. It was clearly burnt badly in that antitrust case, and went into classic avoidance. Meanwhile, Apple Books in general, and thus audible books as well, has been on the back burner at Apple for sometime. I would expect the spotify effort is more like the Apple podcast, but specifically given development attention and promotion to help spotify diversify. I would also note that all Apple Books has over The Kindle App is you can buy books directly in the app, whereas Apple requires the buyer to go outside the app to a browser for kindle. And there is also the classic audible subscription (Amazon owns audible) but it is not good value of money and an area ripe for classic disruption. Over on kindle, if you buy a kindle book, if an audio version also exists for it you can get it added to the purchase for an extra couple of dollars and you can progress through the book either through reading or listening, the kindle app knows where you are. There are some books available through the podcast app, but it is pretty limited. Basically you have to buy an audiblebook at exorbitant prices (AUD$30 plus) in the Books app.
Audiobooks is a key area it is has not been given any love. audiobook experience on Apple Books is not great.Īpple hasn’t really paid much attention to its Books app, although Books finally got thrown a wee bit of a bone interface wise in ios16. I have to go outside the app on kindle too for content, including audiobooks. If Spotify had done it the way you describe in the article it might have had more of a chance of being approved. It was the way that Spotify, through some convoluted email process to avoid fees that apple didn’t like.
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