Microsoft Ebook Store Closure

You can get a refund.

Microsoft ebook store closure. Starting april 2 2019 the books category in microsoft store will be closing a statement on the company website read. The books category is closing. Microsoft has not only removed books from its online portal but plans to remove access to existing purchases and rentals in early july.

From popular mechanics microsoft is closing down its e books platform. There s bad news for users of microsoft s ebook store. Today the company announced plans to permanently close all microsoft store locations in the united states and around the world except for four locations.

All of your books are going to be deleted this month. All books will be deleted from the giant s cloud including ones purchased by users by july 2019. As far as e reading goes microsoft s option was never our favorite.

Microsoft was actually one of the early ebook pioneers but was never really able to exploit the advantages. Microsoft started selling ebooks back in 2017 but now the microsoft store has shut down its ebook marketplace for good. See refund details below.

Starting april 2 2019 the books category will be closing. Those purchases will be met. The company is closing it down and with it any books bought through the service will no longer be readable.

Those purchases will be met with a full refund. Unfortunately this means you ll no longer have access to your current ebooks as of july 2019 but you ll get a full refund if you paid for your ebook download. Unfortunately this means that starting july 2019 your ebooks will.