Amazon has discontinued the Download & Transfer via USB option today. Customers are up in arms and fleeing the Kindle ...

Amazon confirmed the removal of the book download feature in a statement to The Verge. “Customers can continue reading books ...

As it is, there has been a sudden rush among users to download the books they have purchased from Amazon to their computers ...

Amazon has long offered a “Download & transfer via USB” option for your purchases. That option was removed for the most recent generation of Kindles, and is going away for old models on February 26.

Later this week, Amazon is closing a small loophole that allowed purchasers of Kindle books to download those files to a computer and transfer them via USB. Originally intended to extend e-book ...