Amazon and Barnes & Noble Pull 'Buy' Links From Apps
Apple is starting to enforce its new app guidelines
In the latest development in Apple’s contentious relationship with booksellers, the country’s two biggest e-book retailers—Amazon and Barnes & Noble—have stopped selling their wares directly to customers through their Apple apps, reports The Wall Street Journal. Canadian bookseller Kobo did the same just this past weekend.
Amazon and Barnes & Noble told customers that they had removed the “buy” link from their iPhone apps yesterday. Customers will be able to access their digital titles through the Kindle and Nook apps on their iPads, but in order to actually buy new content, they’ll have to visit the Kindle and Nook store websites on Safari—a much more complicated process than simply clicking a button.
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