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Users have no contractual guarantee of continued access to the Service or its content, and Kindle owes no advance warning before making changes or discontinuing access.
The updated terms no longer include any language governing Kindle Vella, a service that previously allowed customers to purchase and redeem digital Tokens for eligible content through the Kindle Store. This removal eliminates contractual protections that previously governed Token ownership (non-expiration, non-transferability), refund policies, and geographic restrictions. Users who hold existing Token balances or have purchased Vella content should contact Amazon customer service to understand how their existing purchases and balances are affected, as the terms no longer explicitly address this service.
View change record →Readers may lose access to the Service, or find its content altered, at any time and without prior notice from Kindle.
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we reserve the right, including without prior notice, to limit the available quantity of or discontinue making available any product, feature, service or other offering; to impose conditions on the honoring of any coupon, discount, offer or other promotion...
Microsoft reserves the right to restrict the export of data that may compromise the security of the services or Microsoft's intellectual property.
We reserve the right to modify or terminate free trials at any time, without notice and in our sole discretion.
"We may change, suspend, or discontinue the Service, in whole or in part, including adding or removing Subscription Content from a Service, at any time without notice.Excerpt from Kindle's Store Terms of Use
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Users have no contractual guarantee of continued access to the Service or its content, and Kindle owes no advance warning before making changes or discontinuing access.
Readers may lose access to the Service, or find its content altered, at any time and without prior notice from Kindle.
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