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Managing Your Kindle Subscriptions

Starting a Kindle Subscription

To start a new Kindle subscription to a magazine, newspaper, or blog from the Kindle Store at Amazon.com, click the "Subscribe now with 1-Click" button. All subscriptions include at least a 14-day free trial. You can cancel at any time during your free trial, and you will not be charged. If you do not cancel within the trial period, your subscription will continue at the regular monthly price using the payment method we have on record for you. You are eligible for only one free trial per periodical. If the current issue is available for purchase without a subscription, you'll be presented with that option as well.

Items Available Via Subscription

Subscriptions to the Kindle edition of magazines, newspapers, and blogs are available for most Kindle devices and supported Kindle reading applications. There are some differences in availability.

Note: Kindle subscription content is currently available for Kindle for Android and Kindle for iPhone/iPad/iPod touch reading applications.

Magazines and newspapers in text view

Most Kindle subscriptions are available in text view. Text view allows you to navigate articles easily with the same reading experience as Kindle books.

Magazines in page view

Many magazines are available in page view for supported Kindle devices and Kindle reading applications only. In page view, magazines look just like the pages of the printed edition of the magazine. You can flip through the magazine in either portrait or landscape mode.

Interactive newspaper and magazine apps

You'll also see newspaper and magazine apps in the Kindle Store. Subscriptions are available for supported Android devices, including Kindle Fire, through the Amazon Appstore to customers in the U.S. Learn more about getting started with the Amazon Appstore.

Enriched newspaper editions

The enriched edition of Kindle newspapers includes all images provided by the publisher and can be downloaded via Wi-Fi to your Kindle.

You can still access your Kindle newspaper subscription via a 3G connection, but this version may have a restricted number of images.

Enriched newspaper editions are not available on Kindle 1st Generation and Kindle 2nd Generation devices. Kindle newspapers delivered to supported Kindle reading applications always include all images provided by the publisher.

Special access for some Kindle newspaper subscribers

Your subscription to the Kindle edition of The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal also grants you additional access to these publications. Learn more about special access for Kindle subscribers.

Blogs

When you subcribe to your favorite blog through your Kindle device, it will display as a single entry, like books. When you sync your device to check for new items, your Kindle will download the complete feed so you can read your blogs offline.

Blogs are available for U.S. and UK customers. Blog subscriptions are not available on Kindle Fire, but may be accessed through the Pulse app in Apps or the Amazon Silk web browser.

Delivery of Subscriptions

Frequency of delivery

Kindle subscription content will be automatically delivered to your Kindle device or supported Kindle reading application as soon as it is published in digital format. To automatically receive your subscription content, your device must be within the wireless service area and be connected wirelessly.

To transfer a subscription for delivery of future issues from one Kindle device or app to another, see Transferring Kindle subscriptions.

Check the product detail page in the Kindle Store for information about frequency of delivery.

Delivery outside the wireless service area

If you aren't able to connect wirelessly or are traveling internationally, your subscriptions cannot be delivered automatically. However, any Kindle content you purchase on Amazon.com, including recent issues of subscriptions, is accessible through Manage Your Kindle. Files can be downloaded to a computer and then transferred to your Kindle device via the USB connection.

For detailed information about transferring content to your Kindle device via USB and managing your Kindle newspaper and magazine apps, click on your device or Kindle reading application in the More Information section.

Keeping Subscription Content

To learn how keep back issues of a Kindle subscription, click on your Kindle device or Kindle reading application in the More Information section.

Managing Your Kindle Subscriptions

You can manage your Kindle subscriptions, including payment methods, from the Subscriptions Settings section of Manage Your Kindle.

Your subscription payment method

Your Kindle subscriptions are billed to your 1-Click payment method. If you wish to have future billing periods billed to another payment method, you will need to update the payment method for the individual subscription through the Subscriptions Settings section of Manage Your Kindle. The payment method listed must be a credit or debit card issued by a U.S. bank with a U.S. billing address.

Note: Amazon Gift Cards/Gift Certificates cannot be used to pay subscription fees.

Transferring Kindle subscriptions

To transfer a periodical subscription for delivery of future issues from one Kindle device or supported Kindle reading application to another, follow these steps:

Visit the Subscriptions Settings section of Manage Your Kindle.
Locate the subscription you wish to modify.
Click the “Edit” link next to the device or app name listed under “Deliver future editions to.”
Select the Kindle device or supported Kindle reading application to which you'd like the subscription to be transferred.
Click the Update button. The next published edition will be sent to the device you selected.

For information about managing your Kindle newspaper and magazine apps, click on your device or Kindle reading application in the More Information section.

Reactivating and cancelling Kindle subscriptions

You can update the status of any subscription, including a subscription you enjoyed in the past, through the Subscriptions Settings section of Manage Your Kindle.

To reactivate an inactive subscription:

Visit the Subscriptions Settings section of Manage Your Kindle.
Click “View inactive subscriptions.”
Click the Actions button next to the subscription you wish to reactivate.
Choose “Reactivate Subscription.”
Click the "Reactivate subscription" button in the popup window to confirm your choice.

When you reactivate a subscription, you may also want to verify that the payment method associated with that subscription is current.

To cancel an active subscription:

Visit the Subscriptions Settings section of Manage Your Kindle.
Click the Actions button next to the subscription you wish to cancel.
Choose "Cancel subscription" from the dropdown menu.
Click the "Cancel Subscription" button in the popup window to confirm your choice.

Once you cancel a subscription, you will stop receiving new issues immediately and you will no longer be able to re-download back issues. A prorated refund for the remaining balance of your subscription will be issued.

Special Access for Kindle Subscribers

Your subscription to the Kindle edition of The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal also grants you additional access to these publications.

NYTimes.com access for Kindle subscribers

With a Kindle subscription to The New York Times, you'll also receive access to NYTimes.com. Your subscription includes complete coverage of breaking news, articles, video, audio, multimedia, and blogs on NYTimes.com.

To start accessing NYTimes.com, sign in with your Amazon.com account at www.nytimes.com/kindleaccess.

Cancelling a Kindle subscription to The New York Times will also cancel access to NYTimes.com.

Customers can manage active subscriptions and reactivate a cancelled subscription at any time by visiting the Manage Your Kindle Subscription Settings page.

The Wall Street Journal for Kindle and Digital Plus access for Kindle subscribers

With a subscription to The Wall Street Journal Kindle and Digital Plus you will receive unlimited access to WSJ.com website. Additionally, your subscription includes access to The Wall Street Journal on other mobile platforms including Kindle Fire, iPad, and select smartphones for as long as your Kindle subscription remains active.

The Wall Street Journal Kindle and Digital Plus access includes on:

All WSJ Kindle Editions for e-ink devices
The Wall Street Journal App for Kindle Fire
WSJ Kindle Editions for Kindle for iPad, Kindle for iPhone, and Kindle for Android reading apps
WSJ.com
The Wall Street Journal App for iPad & Android tablets
WSJ Mobile Reader for Blackberry, iPhone and Android smartphones

To start accessing WSJ.com and WSJ tablet and smartphone apps, sign in with your Amazon.com account at http://www.wsj.com/kindleaccess.

Cancelling a Kindle subscription to The Wall Street Journal will also cancel access to WSJ.com and additional mobile platform access.

Customers can manage active subscriptions and reactivate a cancelled subscription at any time by visiting the Manage Your Kindle Subscription Settings page.

Note: A Kindle subscription of the Wall Street Journal, and related access to WSJ.com, is only available to customers with a U.S. billing address.

Subscription Content Issues

If any content you purchase from the Kindle Store appears to be formatted incorrectly or is missing text, please visit the "Contact Us" box in the right-hand column of the Help pages to contact Customer Service. We work very hard to ensure the quality of all items you purchase from the Kindle Store, and Customer Service can help determine the cause of the error.

Kindle Newspaper and Magazine Privacy and Security

We will share the name, billing address, and order information associated with your newspaper or magazine purchase with the publisher. Publishers may use this information for marketing purposes. If you do not want the publisher to use your name and address from your subscriptions for marketing purposes, you can update your privacy setting through Manage Your Kindle. We or publishers may share this information with a circulation-auditing organization, such as the Audit Bureau of Circulation and BPA Worldwide. These organizations monitor magazine and newspaper sales to provide verification of circulation numbers.

We will not share your credit card information with the publisher. If you wish to receive e-mails directly from the publisher, for example to learn when new issues are available, you can update your privacy settings for your subscription at Manage Your Kindle. Read more about Amazon.com's Privacy Notice and credit card safety.