Amazon Just Killed Kindle for PC and Revealed their Endgame for Digital Books

Amazon has long insisted that digital books were the future. They offered convenience, portability, and instant delivery. You could carry an entire library in your pocket, or on your desktop and access any title with a click.

Now, Amazon is revising that promise. They have announced that they will discontinue Kindle for PC on June 30, replacing it with a new version restricted to newer systems and controlled distribution channels.

On its own, that change may sound like routine software maintenance. But this isn’t an isolated update. It’s part of a broader pattern.

As we’ve covered here, Amazon is also cutting off older devices from the Kindle store, preventing them from purchasing or downloading new books, despite remaining fully functional.

Put those two decisions together, and they resolve into a clearer picture:

• Restricted access

• centralized control

• redefined ownership.

And readers agreed to none of it.

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