{"id":57468,"date":"2022-04-01T17:46:38","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T21:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=f4533bf4be4034c9d8bd681f06038ee6"},"modified":"2022-04-04T08:56:02","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T12:56:02","slug":"google-crackdown-means-you-wont-be-able-to-buy-barnes-noble-ebooks-on-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=57468","title":{"rendered":"Google crackdown means you won\u2019t be able to buy Barnes &amp; Noble ebooks on Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/4\/1\/23006695\/audible-barnes-noble-in-app-purchases-google-android\">The Verge -  All Posts<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: Do you want to get anti-trust regulated? Because this is how you get anti-trust regulated.<\/div><figure><img alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/6ja8R9xP13w3-WU8nIm0z6jJVZQ=\/0x0:2040x1360\/1310x873\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_image\/image\/70700385\/wjoel_180413_1777_android_002.0.jpg\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><figcaption>Illustration by William Joel \/ The Verge<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>Starting next week, users of Barnes &amp; Noble&rsquo;s Android app will no longer be able to buy digital books in the app, and it seems to be due to a Google Play policy deadline that&rsquo;s been more than a year and a half in the works. And it&rsquo;s not just Barnes &amp; Noble that&rsquo;s affected; you aren&rsquo;t able to buy Amazon&rsquo;s Audible titles with a debit or credit card in the latest version of its Android app, either.<\/p>\n<p>The changes appear to stem from Google&rsquo;s insistence that apps use Google Play&rsquo;s billing systems. Developers have long criticized Apple and Google for requiring the use of their own billing systems, in large part because of the so-called &ldquo;app store tax&rdquo; on many transactions. <\/p>\n<p>Google updated its policies in <a href=\"https:\/\/android-developers.googleblog.com\/2020\/09\/listening-to-developer-feedback-to.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 2020<\/a> to clarify which types of...<\/p>\n  <p>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/4\/1\/23006695\/audible-barnes-noble-in-app-purchases-google-android\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue reading&hellip;<\/a>\n  <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illustration by William Joel \/ The Verge<\/p>\n<p>  Starting next week, users o&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=57468\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}