Amazon is discontinuing Kindle Newsstand, which centralized a buyer’s journal and newspaper subscriptions in addition to single-issue purchases by an Amazon account.

Journal and newspaper points already obtained by clients will nonetheless be out there of their Amazon library. Clients had been knowledgeable of the change on March 9, whereas publishers obtained discover in December.

Customers now can’t purchase Kindle Newsstand subscriptions or print journal and newspaper subscriptions on Amazon. 

Till June 5, clients can nonetheless handle their print journal subscriptions by Amazon. After then, customer support and subscription administration will undergo particular person publishers.

Till Sept. 4, clients with month-to-month and annual Newsstand subscriptions will nonetheless obtain new problems with their magazines, however thereafter these plans will finish and Kindle Newsstand will probably be defunct. 

A professional-rated refund will probably be supplied for any undelivered points that might have in any other case been out there after Sept. 4. The identical refunds will go to those that cancel their Kindle Newsstand subscriptions.

Some magazines, in addition to the USA At the moment newspaper, will nonetheless be out there by Amazon’s Kindle Limitless program, which permits limitless entry to a number of Kindle ebooks and audiobooks. Kindle Limitless prices $9.99 month-to-month.

The transfer to chop Kindle Newsstand was on account of a scarcity of single-issue purchases and journal and newspaper subscription gross sales.