Since May 26, 2025, the Kindle application will stop working properly Of version 8.51 or previous; Users who always use these old versions of the application will lose access to the books they bought on the Amazon platform, until they can update to the latest version.
Behind this strange decision is the last stroke of Amazon against hacking, but also against user freedom to use books purchased as they wish. The company is in an authentic crusade against Kindle book downloadsAt the same time legal and pirates, to the point that it completely blocked its platform to prevent it and can leave many users completely abandoned.
Android users will be forced to use the latest version of the Kindle application, from version 9.0; The old version of the application will lose the Kindle content downloading mediumYou will therefore not be able to access the books in our account. It would not be a problem, if it was not due to the fact that not all users can update to version 9.0 of the Kindle application.
Among users who can lose access to their Kindle books are those of Old devices, with an old version of Android It is not compatible with the new Kindle application, for example. The company itself recognizes that it is possible that some legal customers are 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 application on another device.
Amazon's official justification to make this decision is that the last update “guarantees that you will draw the best party from Kindle's experience and that the application is working properly”. But in reality, there is another motivation that has nothing to do with “improving the experience” and has to do with the control of the download of books bought in Kindle, as they reveal in Walker.
And it is that Kindle version 9.0 introduced new protections in books downloaded from the application, which prevents them from being Extract and copied to another device. There are methods to extract books using the old Kindle application and make a backup of books bought on the Amazon platform; But the company has learned and forced the update that introduces new protection.
Don't forget last February, Amazon eliminated the Kindle book download functionThis made it possible to safeguard 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 this function was widely used by users who wanted to maintain a copy of their books.
In 2025, Amazon focused on the end of Kindle hacking and, therefore, any possibility of making legal backup copies of the books was persecuted and eliminated.
