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Amazon is discontinuing the Kindle Cloud Reader
- centv 6y agoI can't find any announcement from Amazon. Really hope that this is just a wild speculation. On the other hand, I've been reading some books on Manning liveBook, it's really nice to be able to interact with other readers in the comment section on the same content, and sometimes the author would chime in too. But of course only Manning books are available there.
- woofie11 6y agoMine works fine. If Amazon discontinues, I'll want a major refund. That's how I read eBooks. Without a big screen, textbooks are useless.
- paul_f 6y agoIf people purchased books with the expectation they would work on Cloud Reader, wouldn't Amazon have to provide some sort of refund? Amazon cannot suddenly force people to buy a Kindle device to access books they've already paid for.
- fidelramos 6y agoNews like this is why I don't support services that don't allow downloading a non-DRM copy of the data I would purchase. No Kindle, no Spotify, no Netflix.
- nojito 6y agoYou’re not buying content on Spotify and netflix. This is a bad comparison to kindle where you actually purchase content.
- rahimnathwani 6y agoIf you're on a platform where Kindle Reader app is available, is there any reason to use the Kindle Cloud Reader? I guess there are some people who buy Kindle books but whose main OS is ChromeOS (like the screenshot in the article) or desktop Linux. What's the solution for them? Use ARC (Android Runtime for Chrome)?
- closeparen 6y agoDowntime at work where you don’t have local admin and an actual Kindle or paper book is too obvious.
- ddp 6y agoMine works fine too (Windows/Chrome).