To buy a book, tap the Buy button and then the Read Now button on the page to automatically download the book and open it in the iPad Kindle app.Amazon has intentionally “crippled” its Kindle and Cloud Reader software for non-Kindle devices: the software doesn’t allow consumers to organize books in any way. Select Add to Home Screen to create a bookmark for the Kindle Store. Log into your Amazon account on the page and then tap the Share button on the right side of the address bar. Open Safari and enter in the address bar. While the Kindle app for iPad may lack a Buy button for directly purchasing books on the tablet, Amazon suggests an alternate approach that uses the iPad’s Safari browser.

However, Apple takes a 30 percent cut of the In-App Purchase price, which has caused many companies (including Amazon) to go outside Apple’s App Store to sell additional content for their iOS apps.

To see the books that have been downloaded to the iPad, tap the Device tab at the bottom of the All Items screen.Īpple’s rules for developers and companies selling software in its App Store require that everyone use its In-App Purchase system to sell digital goods. Tap a book cover to download the title from Amazon’s Cloud to your iPad’s Kindle library. Once you have logged in on the iPad, you should see all the Kindle books you have bought shown on the Cloud tab at the bottom of the All Items screen. If you have already downloaded the Kindle app for iPad, log into it with the same Amazon account user name and password you use to buy the books on your Kindle e-reader. How can I get them onto my iPad? And why does my Kindle app on the iPad not let me buy a book with that device?Ī.

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