Amazon is ending support for older Kindles and Kindle Fires

Amazon has announced that starting connected May 20th, 2026, Kindle e-readers and Kindle Fire devices released successful 2012 and earlier will “no longer beryllium capable to purchase, borrow, aliases download caller contented via the Kindle Store,” Amazon spokesperson Jackie Burke wrote successful an email to The Verge. Users will still beryllium capable to publication books already downloaded to their devices and tin entree their accounts and Kindle purchases done the Kindle mobile app, Kindle for Web, and newer devices. If the older devices are deregistered aliases mill reset, users won’t beryllium capable to re-register them aft the May deadline.

The complete database of affected devices goes each the measurement backmost to the original Kindle that launched successful 2007 pinch a afloat keyboard and scroll wheel.

Amazon will beryllium notifying affected users complete email up of May 20th pinch an mentation of what their older devices tin and cannot do. Pre-2012 Kindle Fire devices will beryllium subjected to the aforesaid limitations arsenic Kindle e-readers erstwhile it comes to books, but different apps and Amazon services connected those devices won’t beryllium impacted.

For longtime users wanting to return the opportunity to upgrade to newer Kindle hardware, Amazon will connection a 20 percent discount connected caller Kindle devices and a $20 ebook in installments that will beryllium added to their accounts aft upgrading, valid until June 20th, 2026, astatine 11:59PM PT. Their older purchases will beryllium disposable connected caller devices arsenic agelong arsenic they log successful to the aforesaid relationship they’ve been utilizing for the past 14 years aliases more.

In 2016, Amazon required users of respective Kindle e-reader models from 2012 and earlier to update the package connected their devices successful bid to person continued entree to the Kindle Store. But a decade later it seems for illustration clip is yet up for those devices.