Why can't I buy books through my kindle app?

This is a problem I've been wrestling with for months and I finally deigned to spend the requisite time in a live chat session with Amazon trying to fix, and I believe (two hours later) that I have at least a temprorary solution until they get it together. It's true, one can no longer purchase Kindle books directly through the Kindle app on an iPad. They've simply eliminated the store within the app. AND, you cannot purchase a kindle book on your ipad through either the Amazon app itself, or even the regular Amazon Safari site. You must go to www.amazon.com/ipadkindlestore and that is the ONLY place that iPad users can now purchase their Kindle books. - And they do not tell you this anywhere within the Amazon site, it's incredibly frustrating.

I now travel without a laptop because my iPad does most things that I need. So when I wanted to download a book, I found that I ran into this problem as well and ended up finding an Amazon site that pointed me to the Kindle Store site:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/kindle/kcp/tos.html/ref=kin_ipad_glbl_surl_iksc#stos-b ookmark

I was able to then go to the site and buy the book I wanted which in turn downloaded immediately to my iPad. It does give you the option to "Read in Browser" but I clicked "Read Now" for the download.

The Amazon site I got the Kindle link from was found in the third (#3) FAQ titled, "How do I buy books on Kindle for iPad or Kindle for iPhone?" and the web address is:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200298460

I hope this helps.

Does this still (07-2013) work for iPad/folks? I am brought to the amazon kindle site and everything goes fine until the final submit purchase screen. However, on my IPad, what should be a clickable submit purchase button is not clickable/ not functional! I can't seem to purchase kindle books at all with my iPad ( iPad I ). The same link works fine from a PC.

It doesn't work because Apple doesn't allow rival content distributors to sell through their apps if they want to remain on the App Store. And if you can only get apps from the App Store...well...you do what they say. How they've gotten away with this when Microsoft couldn't bundle a free browser with their OS is a little beyond me, but is what it is.

So. You can buy your content through your browser on amazons site. And then access it through the kindle app. But you can't buy content from the app itself. That inconvenience is to encourage you to buy your content from Apple. It's certainly not because amazon wants it that way...

I don't think this has anything to do with a TBD.