“We remain committed to our customers in China. As a global business, we periodically evaluate our offerings and make adjustments, wherever we operate,” a spokesperson for Amazon said in an emailed statement.
SHANGHAI, June 2 (Reuters) – 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.
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Other Western internet companies, including Microsoft’s LinkedIn, Yahoo and Airbnb Inc have cut services in or retreated completely from China in recent months, amid government efforts to tighten control over online content and new laws targeting data sharing and customer privacy.
“Details about the company are readily available online,” Amazon told Reuters, “and CIBTC has placed its name and logo prominently throughout its page. Our relationship with CIBTC is entirely appropriate.”
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The report detailed how the Kindle business was one it had sought to expand in China, and cited an internal 2018 Amazon briefing document that said by the end of 2017, China had become Kindle’s largest global market, “accounting for 40%+ of our world device sales volume”.
Amazon, by contrast, has grown into a powerful economic force in China in recent years, providing lucrative export opportunities to thousands of Chinese businesses while growing its own industry-leading cloud-services unit.
Amazon dedicated several employees to the effort, which involved CIBTC, the government book-trading company, which the document described as “the executing body from GAPP.” The company planned to tout the portal to Chinese authorities as Amazon’s only store named after a country, the document said.
Amazon’s China office responded to CAC that “it is difficult for Amazon China to accommodate such requests, and we’ll relay the message to” Amazon headquarters “and seek their views about possibilities,” the briefing document stated.
According to a former Amazon executive involved in talks with China, the company secured some, but not all, of the government approvals it needed to sell Kindle devices and Ebook e-books.
That situation gave the government leverage over the retailer, the former executive said. “It was a wink and a nod.” Amazon’s public-policy team came up with the China Books project as a novel way “to get what we wanted on Kindle and other things,” the person said.