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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]

iPhone 4 goes on sale at AT&T stores

NEW YORK CITY–Lines formed early at AT&T stores here as the iPhone 4 went on sale, and stores quickly sold out of stock.

Customers started lining up as early as 5 a.m. EDT in front of the AT&T store on 95th Street and Broadway on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. By 7:20 a.m. the store was out of the 32GB phone. And by 7:30 a.m. store representatives said they would not have enough 16GB phones to make it through the 60 or so people left in line, which snaked down the block.

Potential buyers were given the option to wait in line to sign up for an iPhone 4, and come back later in the day to pick it up after the store receives more shipments. Sales representatives said they weren’t allowed to say how many phones the store received prior to the launch or how many they’d be getting in on Tuesday.

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