The agreement authorizes Amazon to modify, suspend, or discontinue any aspect of the Service, including Subscription Content availability, at any time without prior notice, and to amend any agreement terms by posting revisions online, with continued use treated as acceptance of revised terms.
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This provision establishes a rolling consent mechanism under which Amazon may alter material terms without individualized notice to users, and service or content availability may change without warning, including for Subscription Content that users are actively paying to 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 →Expanded to explicitly cover unilateral amendment of agreement terms with deemed acceptance via continued use; replaced "modify Kindle Content" language with broader subscription content management provisions.
View full change record →Under this clause, consumers have no contractual entitlement to advance notice before service changes, content removals, or term amendments take effect. The agreement treats continued use of Kindle Software or the Service after a term change as binding acceptance of the revised terms.
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Compare across platforms →"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. We may amend any of this Agreement's terms at our sole discretion by posting the revised terms on the Amazon.com website. Your continued use of any Kindle Software or any aspect of the Service after the effective date of the revised Agreement terms constitutes your acceptance of the terms.Excerpt from Kindle's Store Terms of Use
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: Rolling consent mechanisms that treat continued service use as acceptance of amended terms have been examined by the FTC under Section 5 of the FTC Act in the context of unfair or …
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This provision establishes a rolling consent mechanism under which Amazon may alter material terms without individualized notice to users, and service or content availability may change without warning, including for Subscription Content that users are actively paying to access.
Under this clause, consumers have no contractual entitlement to advance notice before service changes, content removals, or term amendments take effect. The agreement treats continued use of Kindle Software or the Service after a term change as binding acceptance of the revised terms.
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