eBooks

Now that Amazon has removed the option to download purchased Kindle ebooks outside of Kindle ereaders and Kindle apps, some people are threatening to stop buying ebooks from Amazon entirely, while others are willing to buy exclusive titles when other options don’t exist. At either rate, people are looking for alternatives to the Kindle store […]

We’re down to the last day before Kindle customers will lose access to the download and transfer feature on Amazon’s website to get AZW3 copies of purchased ebooks without having to jump through extra hoops. If you’ve been delaying downloading your Kindle ebooks, or if you don’t have enough time to download them all one […]

Yesterday was a big day in the ebook world, and not in a good way. In case you missed the news, Amazon is planning to remove the ability to download purchased ebooks from their website starting February 26th, 2025. Most Kindle users don’t really understand what that means since most people don’t use the Download […]

I’ve started seeing some reports of the Kindle’s download and transfer via USB feature not working at Amazon, so I tested it myself and the reports are indeed accurate—it’s currently not possible to download purchased ebooks from Amazon using the download and transfer option from the Content section of their website. When you try to […]

Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been reading Kindle ebooks on the Boox Palma 2, and I noticed that the Kindle Android app now supports in-app ebook purchases. I don’t know when that happened, but it must be a recent change. Amazon removed in-app purchases from their Android app back in 2022 when Google […]

Amazon has announced they’ve started winding down Kindle Vella, and they plan to put an end to it entirely in February of 2025. If you’re wondering what Kindle Vella is, you’re not alone. Amazon first rolled out Kindle Vella in July of 2021, and the serialized platform has failed to catch on. Not unsurprisingly, most […]