You can no longer purchase Kindle books through the Amazon app on Android

Re:You can no longer purchase Kindle books through the Amazo... by AdmiralAsshat on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @11:57AM (#31571098)

You won't be able to purchase Comics through the Comixology app either, as of v. 4.0.1.

I personally make the majority of my Amazon purchases through the Amazon/Kindle/Comixology apps on my phone, quite frankly because the process of doing it on my laptop requires several more steps (open laptop; open Amazon; re-authenticate with password manager; sign into Amazon; pull out 2FA token to complete sign in; find the thing; check out). For all the security trade-offs with Amazon's "1-Click" buy options, it really works. The loss of revenue is not going to be from things I research and plan to buy (e.g. if I order a new TV after hours of meticulous research), it's going to be the impulse buy's of $2 e-books and the like, where the added burden of logging in will force me to think about whether I really want this e-book enough anymore to finish jumping through all the hoops.

Maybe that's a plus in many people's eyes. But it's probably going to take a sizable hit on Amazon's bottom-line.

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Re:You can no longer purchase Kindle books through the Amazo... by michaelmrose on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @01:06PM (#31572006)

You can stay signed into Amazon, one click buy works on their website, and if you started your search for the content on the computer instead of the phone you would only have to click buy instead of those other steps.

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Re:You can no longer purchase Kindle books through the Amazo... by slaymaker1907 on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @12:30PM (#31571535)

You could use your phone's browser instead of your laptop.

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Re:You can no longer purchase Kindle books through the Amazo... by AdmiralAsshat on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @12:54PM (#31571837)

That doesn't solve the login headaches, though, and in fact it makes them slightly more headachey as my browser of choice (Firefox) doesn't seem to play well with the AutoFill API on Android.

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Re:You can no longer purchase Kindle books through the Amazo... by staticman2 on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @12:05AM (#31577939)

Once you log into Amazon on Firefox it should remember your account. (I just tested it in Firefox Android and I am logged in.)

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Re:You can no longer purchase Kindle books through the Amazo... by vorejdajo on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @02:27PM (#31573019)

Store it in Firefox internal credentials database instead?

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Re:You can no longer purchase Kindle books through the Amazo... by greenshackle2 on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @02:35PM (#31573119)

Not only that, but they only rolled out the Comixology web store in the US and UK:

https://www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/comics-store/home

There is no such page on Amazon.ca, Amazon.com.au, etc. Actually, the route exists, but it's broken:

https://www.amazon.ca/kindle-dbs/comics-store/home

In Canada, the only place I can buy Comixology titles now is the generic Kindle store, and it's pretty bad for browsing comics.

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Re:You can no longer purchase Kindle books through the Amazo... by bashinator on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @03:44PM (#31573989)

Yeah, Amazon really effectively destroyed the "browsing" experience of the comixology store. Really they just destroyed the comixology store - it's been subsumed by amazon's generic storefront which is pretty pessimally designed for discovering new non-mainstream content.

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Re:You can no longer purchase Kindle books through the Amazo... by mcphage on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @04:12PM (#31574347)

> You won't be able to purchase Comics through the Comixology app either, as of v. 4.0.1.

Did they do that years ago? I used to read comics through Comixology, and when Amazon bought them, and shortly thereafter disabled purchasing comics through the app, was when I stopped buying new comics.

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Re:You can no longer purchase Kindle books through the Amazo... by AdmiralAsshat on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @04:19PM (#31574422)

Maybe it was different for you because you had a pre-acquisiton Comixology account?

For me (did not get into Comixology until after Amazon bought it but kept the apps separate), I could always buy through the Comix app, but it was in effect signing into my Amazon account whenever it wanted to make a purchase.

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