Beginning in May, pre-2013 Kindles will not have the ability to purchase or obtain new books

If you personal an older Kindle e-reader, together with fashions with bodily keyboards or bodily page-turn buttons that you simply’ve been reluctant to surrender, Amazon has dangerous information for you. The firm despatched a message to house owners of these units right this moment, informing them that beginning on May 20 they’d not have the ability to purchase or obtain books from the Kindle Store.

The change (as reported by Good E-Reader and elsewhere) impacts all Kindles launched and bought in 2012 or earlier, going all the best way again to the unique Kindle from 2007. Users will nonetheless have the ability to learn books which have already been downloaded to these units, however they received’t have the ability to obtain extra, and in the event that they reset these Kindles to their manufacturing facility defaults, the units received’t have the ability to signal again in to an Amazon account.

“Affected devices include Kindle 1st and 2nd Generation, Kindle DX and DX Graphite, Kindle Keyboard, Kindle 4, Kindle Touch, Kindle 5, and Kindle Paperwhite 1st Generation,” reads the message from the Kindle workforce. Older 2011 and 2012-era Kindle Fire tablets may also lose entry to the Kindle Store.

Amazon’s Kindle generational branding is sometimes complicated—that “Kindle Paperwhite 1st Generation” can be known as “Kindle Paperwhite (5th Generation)” on Amazon’s support pages as a result of it’s a part of the fifth era of Kindle releases total. But for those who examine your Kindle’s software program model and see something older than 5.12.2.2, it means your Kindle is dropping entry to Amazon’s retailer and your e-book library.