Digital Books Can No Longer Be Advertised On Shopping Ads from 18 May 2021

Beginning May 18, 2021, Google will no longer support the advertising of digital books globally on Shopping ads.  There will be no change for physical books or audiobooks.

This means that all Shopping ads for digital books will be disapproved at the offer level, including those running at the time the policy goes into effect. Only digital books will be disapproved. This includes PDFs, ePub books, MOBI, and 電子書籍 formats.

This update only applies to Shopping ads for digital books. Buy on Google listings, which already prohibit the sale of digital products, won’t be affected. Listings for other types of books, like audiobooks or physical books, won’t change.

I wonder if free listings are impacted as well, I am guessing it will.

@GinnyMarvin with the digital books can no longer be advertised on shopping ads policy https://t.co/vQywie8fTW does that impact Free Listings as well?

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