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Amazon to shut down Kindle store in China

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Amazon will shut its Kindle e book retailer in China subsequent 12 months, marking the newest retreat by a U.S. tech big available in the market.

Kindle customers in China will not have the ability to buy new books after the e book store closes on June 30, 2023, Amazon announced on its Weibo account on Thursday. The corporate stated it has already stopped supplying third-party sellers with Kindle e-readers, although some are nonetheless listed for buy on Amazon’s JD.com web site.

Chinese language customers can obtain beforehand bought ebooks till June 30, 2024, and proceed to learn them after that, Amazon stated.

Amazon didn’t give a motive for the pullback in its announcement, but it surely stated its current companies in China, comparable to logistics, advertisements and units, will nonetheless function there.

“Amazon’s long-term growth dedication in China won’t change,” Amazon stated within the Weibo publish. “Now we have established an intensive enterprise base in China and can proceed to innovate and make investments.”

Amazon started promoting its Kindle e-readers in China in 2013, and it rapidly grew to become an essential marketplace for the Kindle enterprise, a former Amazon government that oversaw the nation told Chinese state media in 2017.

Different U.S. tech giants together with Airbnb and Microsoft‘s LinkedIn have similarly scaled back their presence in China amid rising competitors from home gamers and harsher web censorship within the nation.

Final December, a Reuters investigation detailed Amazon’s efforts to curry favor in China, together with that it collaborated with the nation’s propaganda arm to launch a “China Books” portal, partly in an effort to increase its Kindle enterprise in China.

Amazon also shuttered its e-commerce marketplace in China in 2019 and has shifted its focus to cross-border promoting to Chinese language shoppers.

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