If your Kindle is from 2012 or earlier, access to the Kindle Store and software updates has ended. These Kindle users will still have access to the books already on their devices. Kindle ereaders and ...

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Get the morning's top stories in your inbox each day with our Tech Today newsletter. This article was first published in early 2025 in response to news that Amazon was restricting the ability to ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Thirteen older Kindle models can no longer access the Kindle Store to buy or download new ...

If you’ve downloaded an ebook in the past decade, it’s likely it was an EPUB file. Well, unless you bought it from Amazon of course. For years now, the company has used its proprietary AZW format for ...

Amazon is preparing to end support for Kindle devices released before 2012 — cutting them off from the Kindle Store and making them virtually unable to load any new content. The company set a cutoff ...

Amazon’s Kindles are some of the best dedicated e-readers you can buy, but a longstanding criticism from users of DRM-free books from non-Amazon sources is that they don’t support the open ePub ...

Why it matters: For years, Kindle users have been unable to buy books published in the ePub format and read them on their e-Reader --- at least not without manually converting them to an ...

A few days ago, Amazon emailed Kindle users to say that some older models are about to lose support. At first glance, it reads like routine housekeeping; devices age out all the time. But these ...

The move means users will only be able to use their devices to read content that’s already downloaded. So, naturally, people are jailbreaking them. Jailbreaking refers to bypassing the software ...