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Originally Posted by davidfor
From memory, this is because of Apple. They only allow apps to use their billing services, and charge a high commission. If you look at it, the Kindle iOS app doesn't sell books either.
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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
This is going to be an iOS thing in general and not a Kobo only thing. You won't see options for buying in most/any book, movie or music apps on iOS. Apple's cut of each sale would often eat most if not all of the percentage a seller makes on each item.
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Ah ok, thank you both for the clarification! I must be living in the dark ages not to have realized it was an Apple issue! Now that I think about it, I had also noticed the Amazon app and website via Safari browser doing the same thing but hadn't thought of the "monetary" connection... I mentioned this to my hubby and he recalled that Netflix used to allow you to subscribe via a button on their app, but that is also gone.
Argh! Guess there WAS a benefit to using an Android phone these past few years...