Amazon has introduced that beginning on Could twentieth, 2026, Kindle e-readers and Kindle Fireplace gadgets launched in 2012 and earlier will “now not be capable to buy, borrow, or obtain new content material by way of the Kindle Retailer,” Amazon spokesperson Jackie Burke wrote in an e mail to The Verge. Customers will nonetheless be capable to learn books already downloaded to their gadgets and may entry their accounts and Kindle purchases via the Kindle cellular app, Kindle for Net, and newer gadgets. If the older gadgets are deregistered or manufacturing unit reset, customers received’t be capable to re-register them after the Could deadline.
The entire record of affected gadgets goes all the way in which again to the unique Kindle that launched in 2007 with a full keyboard and scroll wheel.
Amazon will likely be notifying affected customers over e mail forward of Could twentieth with a proof of what their older gadgets can and can’t do. Pre-2012 Kindle Fireplace gadgets will likely be subjected to the identical limitations as Kindle e-readers in terms of books, however different apps and Amazon providers on these gadgets received’t be impacted.
For longtime customers eager to take the chance to improve to newer Kindle {hardware}, Amazon will supply a 20 p.c low cost on new Kindle gadgets and a $20 e-book credit score that will likely be added to their accounts after upgrading, legitimate till June twentieth, 2026, at 11:59PM PT. Their older purchases will likely be out there on new gadgets so long as they log in to the identical account they’ve been utilizing for the previous 14 years or extra.
