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Originally Posted by issybird
Amazon’s already offered significant sweeteners to trade up to a newer device to owners of the oldest devices. At this point, it must be a very small percentage of Kindle owners of old devices who never traded up and who still use their device (as far as Amazon knows, i.e., because it phones home occasionally). I’m no Amazon apologist and I’m finding the squeezing the nickels these days to be annoying just like everyone else, but I don’t think Amazon “owes” the ancient device owners more than it’s already done for them.
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B&N completely cut off their oldest Nooks. Hasn't Amazon cut off shopping directly on their oldest Kindles? (I never shop on any ereader anyway.) I wouldn't be at all surprised if they cut them off entirely at some point.
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And as far as cracking down on KU goes, that’s something Amazon’s doing to keep the authors happy; Amazon gets its money no matter how it’s allocated.
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Yes, I think it goes hand in hand with their change in ebook return policy. Which was also making authors unhappy when people exploited it.