Amazon has started sending out emails to some Kindle customers notifying them about an upcoming change to email addresses when using Send to Kindle.
It’s a minor change that won’t affect the vast majority of Kindle users in the slightest, but I’m sure some on social media will see it as a sure sign that Amazon is planning to discontinue Send to Kindle in the near future (that’s not happening) and they’ll try to turn this into another mass misinformation event.
Basically, Amazon is removing the option to use partial email addresses and domain-only addresses to help improve security, so Send to Kindle will only support full email addresses moving forward. It’s really not a big deal, and frankly it makes sense.
The change will take effect on April 2nd, 2025. Here’s a quote from the email:
“To enhance security, Send to Kindle will only support complete email addresses (e.g., “kindlecustomer@xyz.com”) and will no longer support partial email addresses or domain-only addresses (e.g., “@xyz.com”) after April 1, 2025. This change helps ensure that only senders from emails you specifically approve can deliver documents to your Kindle.”
To manage your Kindle email addresses go to Amazon’s website, then Manage Your Content & Devices > Preferences > Personal Document Settings.
If you have any partial email addresses on your “approved” email list for personal documents you’ll have to update them to a full email address to continue receiving documents after the deadline. Most people probably only have their own email address listed on the approved list so this only applies to those that have whitelisted additional email addresses in order to receive documents directly from publishers and websites and such.
Yeah none of this is a big deal, because I was using one of those domain ones through calibre and it stopped working like a year ago anyways because all my emails thought it was spam so wouldn’t send anyhow. This was bound to happen
I’ve read that the partial email ban will primarily affect institutions like a publisher sending out ARC copies to readers or a school sending their students documents.
I’ve only ever tried using this service once and I personally didn’t like it so this change is meh. I don’t think Amazon is ever going to get rid of this service though because, tinfoil hat time, send to kinlde is primo data collection.
I’m actually surprised this was still a thing with them! It’s good they’re finally changing this, thanks for letting us know about this update even though it probably doesn’t affect a whole lot of people.
This is the only method I use these days:
https://www.amazon.com/sendtokindle
what is this partial thing? my kindle address has an underscore