{"id":25442,"date":"2026-04-08T06:39:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T11:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=25442"},"modified":"2026-04-08T06:39:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T11:39:55","slug":"amazon-twists-the-blade-in-kindle-owner-backs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=25442","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Twists the Blade in Kindle Owner Backs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/tablets\/ereaders\/own-a-kindle-from-2012-or-earlier-it-could-be-time-to-upgrade-as-amazons-officially-ending-support-for-very-old-models\">TechRadar<\/a> reports that Amazon is severing eBook purchase and download capabilities for owners of Kindle eReaders with models older than 2012.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I guess they have to buy newer versions (and hope\u00a0<em>THEY <\/em>last) &#8230; or pick another brand and ecosystem.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TechRadar reports that Amazon is severing eBook purchase and download capabilities for owners of Kindle eReaders with models older than 2012. I guess they have to buy newer versions (and hope\u00a0THEY last) &#8230; or pick another brand and ecosystem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,3,11,4,5,42,8,52,6,12,59,51,15,14,53,36,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25442"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25443,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25442\/revisions\/25443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}