Amazon Releases Kindle App for Android Phones

Posted in iPhone News by admin. Published June 30th, 2010

Amazon Releases Kindle App for Android Phones

No Kindle? No problem.

Amazon is quickly expanding the reach of its electronic books
business by offering its Kindle application on PCs and mobile phones.

On Monday the company took that approach further, announcing the
release of a new Kindle reading application, called Kindle
for Android, that is available as a free download for phones
running Google’s Android software.

As with other Kindle applications, users will be able to download
books they have started reading on other devices directly to their
mobile phones and save their place across other devices using Amazon’s
Whispersync system.

This new announcement puts Amazon farther ahead of its competitors in
offering a read-everywhere experience. For those who do not want to buy
a Kindle reading device or don’t want to carry it everywhere, there are
Kindle applications for all versions of the Apple iPhone, the iPad, PC
and Mac computers, BlackBerry cellphones and now a range of
Android-powered phones.

By way of comparison, books purchased from the Apple iBookstore
can only be read on the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.

In an Amazon press release, Dorothy Nicholls, who is responsible for
the Kindle business, said, “Our customers tell us they love the
convenience of having their Kindle library with them everywhere and
their reading synchronized across multiple devices.”

Amazon also said that Android owners can expect several new features
to appear in the application in the near future, including the ability
to search the text within a book and to buy new Kindle books from within
the app.

[Thanks: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com]