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Originally Posted by cybmole
well now I have to say I'm curious 
is the amazon store version "special" in some way that affects the end user experience, or just special in that you had to do different under-the-bonnet- stuff to get it to play nice with amazon's world ? |
Both. Some of the differences are:
- The biggest difference is licensing. Google Play lets us give wiggle room, checking the license when we think we must. That is how we offer licensing of child accounts and one-time license checks. I have no idea what Amazon ("it" below) does, but in any event we have no control over it.
- It does different things with default directories.
- It does not offer upload to Google Books.
- It knows that it can of-sorts talk to the native reader instead of the brain-dead K4A.
- Widget handling is disabled (mostly) on Kindle devices.
- The defaults for accepted formats change to include more of the Amazon formats.