Amazon Kindles can’t download books due to an outage
What is causing the Amazon Kindle download outage?
The Amazon Kindle download outage is caused by server issues, according to Amazon support. The company is currently working to resolve the problem, which is affecting both new and previously purchased books on Kindle e-readers1.
How long might the Kindle outage last, according to Amazon?
Amazon has acknowledged the Kindle outage and is working to resolve it. The company has stated that it could take at least 48 hours before ebooks start downloading again, but it could be longer.
Are Kindle users able to download any part of their books?
Kindle users are currently facing an outage that prevents them from downloading both new and previously purchased books to their e-readers2. Users have reported that they can only download the title and cover art of books, but the progress indicator gets stuck at 1 percent3. This issue is affecting books downloaded from Overdrive using Libby as well. However, downloading books to the iOS and Android Amazon Kindle apps is not impacted by this outage.