![]() Update: A couple of big tech sites picked up on this story and as soon as that happened Amazon fixed the problem immediately, so registering 1st and 2nd gen Kindles now works again. You can read more about it on this thread at MobileRead, and here’s the specific post with the email from Amazon support confirming the change in policy. This also completely kills off the used market for 1st and 2nd gen Kindles, including the still-loved Kindle DX, if they can’t be registered anymore. Hopefully things will continue to work normally for updated registered Kindles, but that certainly boxes them in if you can’t ever re-register them again. Last year there was a major update for older Kindles in order to keep wireless services working. ![]() ![]() It seems that Amazon is set on dropping support for registering older Kindles whether it makes sense or not. Those were the models that came with 3G only and no Wi-Fi, so it stands to reason maybe the network has something to do with it, but that doesn’t explain why the wireless still works just fine to browse the Kindle store from these older devices. This doesn’t change the behavior of currently registered Kindles, except you can no longer de-register them either.Īmazon has seemingly disabled the service that registers and de-registers 1st and 2nd gen Kindles.
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