Amazon to pull Kindle out of China, other businesses to remain

The company said the closure of Kindle's China business was not due to government pressure or censorship. Picture: AP /Mark Lennihan

Amazon.com said it will stop supplying retailers in China with its Kindle e-readers from Thursday and will shut its Kindle e-bookstore there next year, in the latest pullback by a U.S. tech firm from the restrictive Chinese market.

Amazon announced the decision on its official WeChat account on Thursday, saying it was adjusting the strategic focus of its operations and that its other business lines in China would continue.