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Old 07-15-2021, 09:51 AM   #220
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Falkor
Long before I ever heard of Kindle Vella I came across references to a new Kindle feature called Falkor. Now that Vella has launched it appears that Falkor is actually Amazon's code name for the micro-payment token system used to purchase and unlock Vella episodes.

This make me wonder whether Falkor is actually a separate project from Vella. It may be that Amazon intends to use these tokens for other types of inexpensive purchases in the future in order to reduce transaction fees.

Correction: After seeing the Falkor name more frequently I retract the above statement. As far as I can tell Falkor is the code name for Kindle Vella, not just the token payment system.
Last edited by jhowell; 09-20-2021 at 01:16 PM. Reason: Correction
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