Amazon announced Tuesday morning that it will shut down its Kindle Vella platform for serial and episodic stories and books in February 2025.

Amazon, in what it described as a "difficult decision," is winding down Kindle Vella and shutting it down completely in February 2025. When the company launched the serialized story platform in 2021,

Learn how authors can navigate Kindle Vella's shutdown and explore alternative platforms for serialized storytelling. Kindle Vella is closing

Amazon is pulling the plug on Kindle Vella, its experiment with episodic storytelling, after lackluster results since the platform launched in 2021. The company confirmed that Kindle Vella will officially shut down in February 2025.

The program shuts down in February 2025, but unlocked stories will remain accessible to readers in the Kindle app on iOS and Android.