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Amazon Kindle book downloads were broken, but now they’re back


You might be stuck with whatever’s already on your Kindle.

By Andrew Liszewski, a senior reporter who's been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2011, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. An ongoing outage is preventing Amazon Kindle users from downloading both new and previously purchased books to their e-readers. Good e-Reader reported the problem on Wednesday, noting a response from Amazon support saying it’s the result of “server issues” and that “it would be at least 48 hours before ebooks started downloading again, but it could be longer.”

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