Updated Amazon is rewarding long-time Kindle users by ditching support for aging devices, though it is trying to "minimize disruption" for existing customers by dangling a 20 percent discount for new models along with an eBook credit.

Well there went the Kindle Touch 3G’s appeal straight out the window: Amazon now admits that while its upcoming touch-based Kindle will indeed be 3G-enabled, the places it’ll be allowed to visit along the information superhighway are actually not so super.

Amazon has announced that it will discontinue support for its older Kindle e-readers and Kindle Fire devices, drawing ire from book lovers who declared, “This is a NIGHTMARE.” Kindle users were in for a rude awakening on Wednesday after Amazon announced that starting next month,