A service outage is preventing amazon Kindle users from downloading new and previously purchased books onto their e-readers. moderators responding to users Reporting the issue on amazon's support forums, the company is aware of the problem and is “currently working to resolve it.” Trying other troubleshooting steps, such as resetting the device, has not fixed the issues, so users may need to wait for this issue to be fixed for now.
amazon-kindle-will-not-download-books-to-the-e-reader#disqus_thread”>Good e-reader reported the issue on Wednesday, pointing to a response from amazon support saying it was the result of “server issues” and that “it would take at least 48 hours before eBooks start downloading again, but it could take longer.”
The edge We have reached out to amazon for further details and will update this post if we find out more details.
Users in Reddit is sharing similar issues with their Kindles, and in amazon Support ForumsThere are several reports that Kindles are only able to download the title and cover of books before the progress indicator gets stuck at 1 percent. The outage also appears to be affecting books that users try to download from Overdrive to their Kindle devices using Libby. However, downloading books to amazon's Kindle apps for iOS and Android is not affected.
This latest issue comes a week after several Kindle books were released users on Reddit An issue was reported with amazon’s “Send to Kindle” feature, which allows e-books and documents to be transferred to e-readers without having to connect them to a computer. Some users received error messages informing them that their files “could not be delivered due to a service error,” while other users in the thread were still experiencing issues with the service earlier this week.
