United Kingdom, April 10 -- Amazon is to stop supporting older Kindle models.

The tech behemoth has emailed affected users to inform them that devices released before or during 2012 will no longer receive updates from May 20.

This means that owners of older Kindle models - such as the Kindle Touch and some Kindle Fire tablets - will be unable to download new e-books.

Amazon said it had supported the affected models for years and that active users have been offered discounts to help "transition to newer devices" but some have criticised the company for making around two million devices "obsolete".

One user wrote on social media site X: "I have a Kindle Touch that I've had since 2013, it works great, I bought a book on it a few months a...