Amazon are withdrawing support from their older Kindles on May 20th - Is my old kindle now defunct ?
Amazon’s Kindle eReaders were ahead of their time when they first emerged in the late noughties, and were the first of the e-ink readers to hit the mass market. They have amassed a large following of dedicated reader fans since then, and have proven themselves robust and long-lasting. There has been considerable concern voiced amongst the Kindle fan-base over the recent announcement by Amazon that they are withdrawing support from their older devices from May 20th, such that readers will then no longer be able to use them to buy books from Amazon or access any books they have stored in the Amazon cloud. The range of devices affected is quite significant . To add insult to injury, Amazon also recently confirmed they are no longer allowing books purchased by subscribers and located in the Amazon cloud to be downloaded directly to their pcs. Why have they risked alienating their customer base by coming up with this 'double whammy' ? The excuse given is that “..the ...