Many people who spent the extra money for a 3G enabled Kindle felt particularly betrayed, that they can no longer use what they paid for. Many of the earliest Kindles did not even have WIFI to buy books, only 3G, which was shut off for millions of users. This occurred because many of Amazons carriers partners in the US and internationally are shutting down their 3G networks and using the frequencies for their latest generation 5G networks. This is a similar stunt they pulled when older Kindle models lost the ability to connect to 3G networks to buy books outside of a WIFI zone. Wikipedia recently stopped supporting older TLS standards.Īmazon is hoping to taper the negative publicity by bribing users to accept a promotional code that will give 30% off a new Kindle and $40 in free ebook credit.
The absence on modern TLS standards on older Kindles is one of the reason why older Kindles lost access to the full version of the Wikipedia site, although the popup cards still work. Suffice to say, since Amazon has not publicly commented, TLS is just pure speculation, but I think this is the mostly likely explanation.
This is why they Amazon can’t simply issue a firmware update to fix the issue. This is partly due to them only supporting TLS 1.0 and 1.1 and due to older hardware, won’t have the necessary permissions to make store purchases. I believe this likely due to a TLS issue, since the oldest Kindle models have an older version and likely can’t be upgraded.
Click Deregister to remove it from your list. Amazon has not disclosed the reason why these particular models are going to lose store access. All the devices connected to your Amazon account are listed here along with any app connections too.
This is the first time that Amazon has ever totally cut off store access on a series of Kindle e-readers. Existing books that are on these models will still be accessible. The only way you can have books delivered to these devices to buy them from your local Amazon website and have them delivered to the Kindle. The company has stated that the Kindle (2nd Gen) International, Kindle DX International, Kindle Keyboard, Kindle (4th Gen), and Kindle (5th Gen) will no longer be able to browse, buy, or borrow books directly from these Kindle e-readers. Amazon has just sent an email to a number of Kindle users who have older e-readers on their account.