Amazon not sells print and Kindle magazines

You possibly can not purchase both print or Kindle Newsstand journal and newspaper subscriptions from Amazon, as the corporate seems to implement one more cost-cutting measure. The e-commerce large introduced that it was halting Newsstand subscriptions on March ninth (through The Verge) and that the change was going to take impact that very day. In case you have an annual subscription, it won’t be renewed, as nicely. 

You possibly can proceed managing your subscriptions — equivalent to altering your supply handle — by way of Amazon till June fifth at 11:59PM PST. However after that, you’d need to get in contact with the writer for any inquiry. Lastly, Amazon will solely be sending you the most recent points in your magazines and newspapers till September 4th. The excellent news is that you’re going to nonetheless have the ability to entry all of the digital points which have already been delivered, and Amazon will ship you a pro-rated refund for any undelivered challenge. 

In an announcement, Amazon spokesperson Julia Lee advised The Verge that the corporate seems at every of its companies to see what it ought to change as a part of its annual working planning overview course of. Lee defined: “Following an evaluation of our journal and newspaper subscriptions and single-issue gross sales, we’ve got made the tough choice to discontinue these companies. We do not take these choices frivolously and are winding down these choices in a phased method over a number of months. We’ll proceed to help clients, sellers and publishers throughout that point.”

Primarily based on Lee’s assertion, the corporate wasn’t earning money from subscriptions, they usually possible turned a casualty that could possibly be attributed to its cost-cutting efforts. Again in January, Amazon expanded its deliberate job cuts to cowl 18,000 roles within the firm after hiring hundreds of latest individuals to maintain up with the heightened demand in the course of the earlier years’ COVID lockdowns. Amazon additionally paused development on its second headquarters in Arlington, Virginia and shut down a number of cashierless Go shops over the previous few months. 

If you wish to preserve receiving the latest problems with your magazines and newspapers, you may have to take a look at different subscription choices from their publishers. A few of them, nonetheless, will nonetheless be out there as a part of Amazon’s Kindle Limitless service.