Amazon.com will close its Kindle e-book service in China by next June, the company said on Thursday, becoming the latest US business to pull the plug on mainland operations after home rental firm Airbnb, professional social media platform LinkedIn, and internet portal Yahoo.
The Kindle unit said it has stopped selling e-book devices to distributors starting Thursday, and will shut down the online bookstore service on June 30, 2023. Users will not be able to purchase new e-books after that date, according to the announcement on its official Weibo and WeChat accounts.