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Originally Posted by MGlitch
Apple and Google handle the in app purchases. So they get paid for it. Very obviously I know Kobo, BN, and Amazon can do this because they all literally do it and survive just fine. Well ok BN is struggling but not because of this. As to forced, again it’s not. ...
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Actually B&N is NOT doing this any more via Android Play Store (can't speak for the Apple App Store but I guess they don't offer in-app sales there either). I don't know if they ever did do it (which is how this thread got started, changes in the Nook App, also changes in the PocketBook App). Apparently, Google just started enforcing this new 30% rate on them and B&N and PocketBook "declined the offer." How could they possibly compete if subject to those terms?
I don't know about the Amazon Kindle, I do know that Audible (another Amazon company) declined the Google 30% offer also. Maybe Kobo and Kindle have other terms or maybe they just haven't reacted yet.
EDIT: A quick search shows me that Amazon dropped Kindle in-app sales on iPhones in 2017 because of the 30% extortion fee. I sincerely doubt they will continue to offer in-app sales on the Android platform if they have to pay Google 30%. It would be suicide.