June 30, #Kindle中国电子书店停止下载服务#冲上热搜.
According to the official website of Amazon China, from June 30, 2024, the Kindle China e-book store will stop the cloud download service, and e-books that have not been downloaded after this will not be able to be downloaded and read.
Once almost subverted the existence of paper books, now the star product of e-readers, Kindle, has finally come to an end in China.
In fact, as early as June 30, 2023, Amazon's Kindle China e-book store officially ceased operations. This means that Chinese users can no longer purchase new eBooks. For eBooks that have already been purchased, they can be downloaded until June 30, 2024, and can continue reading thereafter.
Amazon has published an exit schedule
In 2022, Amazon released the "Kindle China E-book Store Operation Adjustment", announcing that it would stop the operation of the Kindle e-book store in China one year later.
On June 30, 2023, according to the notice issued by Amazon's Kindle service account, the operation of the Kindle e-book store in China was officially stopped, and users can no longer purchase new e-books after that.
According to the notice, for e-books that users have previously purchased, they can be downloaded until June 30, 2024, and they can continue to read. E-books and personal documents stored on Kindle devices will not be affected.
Kindle customer service in China will also continue until June 30, 2024.
It was the subversion of the existence of paper books
A few years ago, domestic sales exceeded one million
In 2007, Amazon launched Kindle, which set off a global e-book reading boom, and officially entered China in 2013. At that time, as a pioneer in the profit model of the digital content industry, Kindle brought 38,700 e-book resources to Chinese consumers as soon as it entered the game.
At that time, owning a Kindle was equivalent to living a literary life. In 2018, Kindle readers sold more than one million readers in China.
Kindle has been in China for ten years, and domestic brands such as iFLYTEK, Huawei, Palm Reading, Wenshi, and WeChat Reading have also appeared in the domestic e-book market, which has had a certain impact on Kindle's market share.
In recent years, Amazon has withdrawn from some business operations in the Chinese market. In May 2023, the Amazon Appstore announced that from July 17, 2023, Amazon China will no longer provide app store services. At that time, Amazon China responded that the Amazon Appstore is an app store for users to download games and mobile apps for Android devices, so the suspension of Amazon Appstore services will not affect any of Amazon's current business operations in China, including Amazon Overseas Shopping, Amazon Global Selling and Amazon China's official website.
It is understood that the current business of Amazon China includes Amazon overseas shopping, Amazon global selling, Amazon advertising, cross-border e-commerce business including Amazon global logistics, Amazon Web Services and Amazon intelligent hardware and services.
Seventy percent of respondents:
Love mobile phone to read and listen to books
On the day of the shutdown on June 30, 2023, a reporter from Nandu conducted a small random survey of users who owned Kindle, and 75% of the respondents said that the frequency of use of Kindle after buying it was very low, and it was basically put on hold to "eat soil", and they usually used their mobile phones more to read e-books and listen to books.
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A small number of respondents also said that they gave up using it after buying it because they couldn't tolerate the extremely slow page turning speed. At the same time, due to the increasing abundance of free book resources on the Internet, more than half of the respondents said that they rarely enter the Kindle e-book store to buy books, so the impact of the closure of this sector is not great.
However, there are also the first batch of Kindle users who said that they will not give up using Kindle devices, and after the closure of Kindle e-book stores in China, they may choose to open Amazon accounts in other countries and regions to continue to buy and download books, and some users said that they will download books through other apps and transfer them to Kindle.
Nowadays, smartphones and tablets not only handle digital reading, but also plug in the Internet function; New ways to listen to books also provide more reading experiences.
Just as netizens left messages to express their regrets, the birth of Kindle did bring an epoch-making product to that time. But, looking ahead, digital reading continues.
On the occasion of the closure of the e-book store in 2023
Some netizens joked
Now my kindle is really going to be used for instant noodles
Some netizens expressed their nostalgia
And told his story with the Kindle
More netizens said
Thank you Kindle for being with you over the years
It's really very easy to use
Unexpectedly
曾经爱不释手的Kindle
After all, it was drowned in the rolling waves
"I always think about next time, but there is no next time"
Source: Southern Metropolis N Video Channel