Amazon Kindle Users Are Losing This Backup Feature For Ebooks From February 26: Why It Matters

Amazon is shutting down its App store for Android users and it also has some bad news for its Kindle readers. The company has confirmed that starting February 26, you cannot download the eBooks you purchased from the Kindle Store and save a copy on your local system.

Yes, Amazon has even shared the update with its users who have frequently used this feature to prolong using the eBooks they bought on the platform. This change might not sound like a big deal but Amazon is clearly cutting off the power of its users to download these eBooks and save them in other formats to use them on their computer.

Kindle Books Remain On The Device

As highlighted in multiple reports, Amazon hasn’t said the exact reason for dropping this feature but somewhere you feel the company has tried to cut the loophole that many might have used over the years.

Amazon’s Kindle store is the de-facto platform to buy books on Kindles, but the download and backup feature has meant that you can take any Amazon Kindle eBook, transfer to your PC via USB and own it as you are meant to be.

Keeping the books stored on Kindle is easy and convenient for millions but eventually you realise that you don’t technically own the content, especially if Amazon decides to remove the title from its store or is forced into banning a book.

Amazon clarifies that you can continue to access these books across its devices but can only copy it when you transfer them using Wi-Fi supported by the Kindles. This deal will surely not please many Kindle users, and the deadline of this week means that most of you don’t even have the time or the option to sit down and download all the books in their Kindle library.