In case you nonetheless get pleasure from your first-gen Kindle ereader, there’s unhealthy information. Amazon is making ready to tug help for a number of older Kindle fashions and Kindle Hearth tablets that have been initially launched earlier than 2013.
On Tuesday, the corporate confirmed the information after a person in Australia reported receiving an e mail in regards to the upcoming change, which can happen subsequent month.
Amazon informed PCMag: “Beginning Could 20, 2026, clients utilizing Kindle and Kindle Hearth units launched in 2012 and earlier will now not have the ability to buy, borrow, or obtain new content material by way of the Kindle Retailer.”
In some excellent news, the units will nonetheless perform. So customers can proceed to learn any present ebooks on them, and even manually load new content material over them. Apps and Amazon companies on the Hearth tablets will not be affected both. Nonetheless, the corporate notes: “These fashions have been supported for not less than 14 years—some so long as 18 years—however know-how has come a good distance in that point, and these units will no longer be supported shifting ahead.”
“In case you deregister or manufacturing unit reset these units, you won’t be able to re-register or use these units in any approach,” the corporate added within the e mail. The affected fashions embody:
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Kindle: Kindle 1st Technology (2007)
Kindle DX and DX Graphite(2009 and 2010)
Kindle Keyboard (2010)
Kindle 4 (2011)
Kindle Contact (2011)
Kindle 5 (2012)
Kindle Paperwhite 1st Technology(2012)
Kindle Hearth Tablets: Kindle Hearth 1st Gen (2011)
Kindle Hearth 2nd Gen (2012)
Kindle Hearth HD 7 (2012)
Kindle Hearth HD 8.9 (2012)
The corporate plans on emailing all affected customers within the US in regards to the change. To melt the blow, Amazon plans on providing each ereader and Hearth pill clients “20% off choose new Kindle units in addition to a $20 eBook credit score that can be routinely added to your account after buying a brand new gadget (legitimate by way of June twentieth, 2026, 11:59pm).”
Consumer accounts and their Kindle Libraries can even stay absolutely accessible by way of the free Kindle app and Kindle for Internet, the corporate added.
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