I am greeted by this screen, every time I open the Android app.
I wonder what will become of Bookwalker as a Japanese e-book resource…
At least the library is still here, I got scared that it was gone too!
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I can’t remember anymore what the message was, but I’ve been blocked from buying on my iPad app before and directed to use a regular browser. Does Chrome/another browser on your Android work to purchase?
I can access and use bookwalker.jp from Chrome and Kiwi Browser, but my default browser is Kiwi. Rarely, having Kiwi as the default browser can be a problem, but probably not this time.
I haven’t tried purchasing, though.
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I noticed this recently too. I’m not sure why they chose to do that. Thankfully, I was only using the app to browse the site and not for reading.
I dont think this is technical problem, but deliberate choice not to let you buy anything through the app.
All purchases made through apps from app store need to leave 30% to google/apple (unless they have some kind of personal agreement?) and i reckon they didnt want to deal with that.
As general rule, try to buy stuff from browser as its often more expensive in the app to offset this fee.
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I think it’s a new app store rule. The ebook store/app I was using, コミックシーモア, also recently disabled buying from their app and explained it was because of Google’s new rules.
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Yeah, within the last couple months kindle had done the same thing. You can wishlist in the app, but no purchasing.
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That’s a “we don’t want Apple/Google taking what’s ours!” move. Haha. I am sure BookWalker figured this out too.
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