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Amazon issues warning about major change for Kindle users starting next month (goodereader.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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In a recent communication, Amazon has alerted Kindle users about significant changes set to take effect from next month. The notification pertains to the phasing out of support for sending MOBI (.mobi, .azw, .prc) files through the “Send to Kindle” feature, starting November 1, 2023. This change, as News18 pointed out, specifically impacts users attempting to send MOBI files via email and Kindle apps on iOS, Android, Windows, and Mac.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I bought my daughter a Kobo years ago and it has worked great. This was before Walmart bought them and they were much harder to find in the US but Kindle was requiring my daughter to have an Amazon account to check out library books. In order to have an Amazon account you must have a credit card attached. Tech support's solution for me was to just give her a pre paid card. They didn't understand why I wasn't interested in forcing my 7 year old into Amazon in order to check out library books.

Kobo has Overdrive installed in the device. You can also load PDF files directly onto it. I don't know if they've changed that over the years but her device is now 7 years old and working great.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This was before Walmart bought them

Walmart didn't buy Kobo, although they did/do own a small share of Rakuten, Kobo's parent company.

In 2018, in an attempt to keep up with Amazon, Walmart partnered with Kobo to sell ebooks and Kobo devices in Walmart stores and online, and I believe that devices purchased from Walmart had the Walmart logo when they booted up, and I think the Kobo site in the US also had Walmart branding, but Kobo was then and is now a Canadian company fully owned by a Japanese company.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Good to know. I was worried that Walmart would screw up the PDF capabilities, among other things.