As of May 26, 2025, the Kindle app will stop working properly From version 8.51 or previous; Users who are still using these old versions of the app will lose access to books they have bought on the Amazon platform, until they can update to the latest version.
Behind this strange decision is Amazon’s last blow against piracy, but also against the freedom of users to use the books bought as they want. The company is in an authentic crusade against Kindle book downloadsboth legal and pirates, to the point that it has completely blocked its platform to prevent it and can leave many users completely abandoned.
Android users will be obliged to use the latest version of the Kindle app, from version 9.0; The old version of the app will lose the Kindle content download supportso you will not be able to access the books of our account. This would not be a problem, if it were not because of the fact that not all users can update to version 9.0 of the Kindle app.
Among users who can lose access to their Kindle books are those of Old devices, with an old version of Android That is not compatible with the new Kindle app, for example. The company itself recognizes that there is the possibility that some legal clients are left without their books, but the only solutions it provides is to use the Kindle version for the web (Read.amazon.com), buy a compatible Kindle device, or use the Kindle app on another device.
Amazon’s official justification to make this decision is that the latest update “ensures that you will get the most out of Kindle’s experience and that the app operates properly.” But in reality, there is another motivation that has nothing to do with “improving the experience”, and has to do with control over the download of books bought in Kindle, as they reveal in Goodereader.
And is that Kindle version 9.0 has introduced new protections in the books downloaded from the app, which prevents them from being extracted and copied to another device. There are methods to extract books using the old Kindle app and make a backup of the books bought on the Amazon platform; But the company has learned and forced the update that introduces the new protection.
Remember that last February, Amazon eliminated Kindle’s book download functionthat allowed to back up our purchases to read them without connection or if they were eliminated from the platform. Amazon has a history of censorship and deleting books on its platform for various reasons, and that function was widely used by users who wanted to maintain a copy of their books.
In 2025, Amazon has focused on ending Kindle’s piracy, and as a consequence, any possibility of making legal backup copies of the books is being persecuted and eliminated.
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