Amazon continues to crackdown on Kindle book sharing

In the case of the Kindle ereader ecosystem, Amazon’s Send to Kindle utility has at all times been one of many extra helpful options out there to end-users. The device makes it simple to wirelessly ship paperwork and digital e book recordsdata on to your Kindle, permitting you to reap the benefits of your E Ink display for a extra comfy studying expertise.

For higher or worse, it now seems that Amazon is cracking down on one traditionally out there Ship to Kindle loophole: the flexibility to make use of a partial e mail handle or a partial area to provoke the method. As reported by Good E-Reader, textual content recordsdata despatched from an unapproved or incomplete handle will fail to be delivered beginning on April 1.

Bookworms on the unofficial r/Kindle subreddit shortly took notice of a brand new e mail despatched out from Amazon Kindle Help, wherein the corporate seems to verify the coverage change in writing.

“To reinforce safety, Ship to Kindle will solely help full e mail addresses (e.g., “kindlecustomer@xyz.com”) and can now not help partial e mail addresses or domain-only addresses (e.g., “@xyz.com”) after April 1, 2025. This alteration helps be sure that solely senders from emails you particularly approve can ship paperwork to your Kindle,” reads the e-mail from Amazon Kindle Help.

Whereas this variation is unlikely to have an effect on most on a regular basis shoppers, it does put a damper on issues within the schooling and enterprise scenes. Till now, some organizations have utilized domain-only e mail addresses to push out Advance Reader Copy (ARC) recordsdata to many customers in a simultaneous capability.

This Ship to Kindle change will undoubtedly put ARC providers like BookFunnel in a trickier scenario going ahead. As one Reddit user points out, the change may also break sure third-party app features. Particularly, the favored Readwise service supplies a Ship to Kindle characteristic that depends on a @readwise.io partial area handle to do its job.

Amazon seems to be within the strategy of closing book-sharing loopholes

The corporate lately deprecated the Obtain & Switch through USB choice throughout its Kindle lineup

Amazon made headlines simply weeks in the past, when it confirmed the removal of Kindle’s ‘Obtain & Switch through USB’ choice starting February 26. This explicit change gutted the flexibility for customers to switch and backup their Kindle-purchased ebooks instantly through a wired USB connection.

Since then, some Kindle customers have expressed their discontent with Amazon’s ever-tightening stance on book file transferring, digital rights administration (DRM) insurance policies, and ecosystem lock-in. Ownership in the digital age is a sensitive topic, and, sadly, books are simply as prone to nebulous licensing phrases as digital films, TV exhibits, and video video games are.

Fortunately, for the foreseeable future, the Ship to Kindle characteristic itself will proceed to function usually — as long as you present a full-length e mail username, and keep away from utilizing a domain-only handle.

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