Thread: Amazon China Kindle Store will stop operation on June 30, 2023
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Old 06-02-2022, 07:29 AM   #2
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Amazon's plan for handling already purchased books is the interesting thing to me. It shows what could happen elsewhere if Amazon pulls out of a market.

Customers have until June 30, 2024 to download books to their Kindle apps and devices. After that those purchased Kindle books will no longer be available.

Unless the customer takes steps to make backup copies and remove DRM those books will gradually be lost to them as devices break or are upgraded. It is just a matter of time.


Added: My understanding is that Kindle books in Traditional Chinese (as opposed to Simplified) are only available in KFX format and DRM removal may not be possible for them.
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