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Amazon releases Kindle app for iPhone
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home —
... Well, that was fast. The Wall Street Journal has just posted the story that Amazon has released its Kindle app for the iPhone today. The application is in the (US-only) iTunes app store right now, and I have downloaded it into my iPod Touch. ...
Amazon's Kindle Comes to the iPhone
ReadWriteWeb —
... on Apple's popular mobile devices. This move comes just a few days after Amazon's Kindle 2 eBook reader arrived in users' hands, but according to Ian Freed, an Amazon vice president, Amazon does not expect that this app will cannibalize Kindle sales as users will probably only use their phones to read for short periods. ...
Yup, Your iPhone Can Be a Kindle, Too–Starting Now
Technologizer —
... It may not have been inevitable, but it was a darn good idea–and it’s extremely cool to learn it’s reality, not just wishful thinking. Starting tomorrow, Amazon.com will be distributing a free iPhone application that puts ...
Amazon releases free Kindle app for iPhone
Top iPhone News —
... Amazon has released a free application that delivers Kindle book-reading to the iPhone, extending the company’s sales of e-books to devices beyond its Kindle e-book reader. ...
Amazon releases free Kindle app for iPhone
iPhone Buzz —
... Amazon has released a free application that delivers Kindle book-reading to the iPhone, extending the company's sales of e-books to devices beyond its Kindle e-book reader. ...
Fallout from Kindle software for iPhone/Touch? $150 used Kindles soon—but NO Mobi for iPhone/Touch? And less chance of ePub for Kindle?
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home —
... Touch, you can now read more than 240,000 books from the Kindle store—thanks to Amazon’s release of Kindle-format software for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
But you can’t download Kindle books except through directly from the iPhone store. You’ll need to use your desktop browser or the iPhone’s built-in Safari browser, according to a review in Treo Today.
See Chris Meadows’ news from this morning in the TeleBlog, based on a Wall Street Journal report. Also see Techmeme roundup.
Some positives from the ...
Fallout from Kindle software for iPhone/Touch? $150 used Kindles soon—but NO Mobi app for iPhone/Touch? And less chance of ePub for Kindle?
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home —
... in the TeleBlog, based on a Wall Street Journal report. Chris himself notes the download limitation. In addition, you might check out the ...
Amazon launches iPhone e-Book app
p2pnet news —
... Now, today, Amazon plans to release a free application for reading electronic books on the iPhone, “extending Amazon’s sales of digital books to devices beyond its Kindle e-book reader,” says the Wall Street Journal. ...
Linkpost | 3.4.2009
TechBlog —
... March 04, 2009 Linkpost | 3.4.2009 • Amazon to Sell Books for iPhones - Amazon releases an app that allows you to read Kindle books on the iPhone. Also ...
Kindle for iPhone
Boing Boing Gadgets —
Amazon will sell books to smartphone users, starting with Kindle for iPhone.
Amazon's software application, which can be downloaded free of charge, allows iPhone and iPod Touch users to read books or periodicals purchased on the Web or through their dedicated Kindle device, usually for $9.99. Using a service that Amazon calls whispersync, the program keeps track of a readers' latest page in any given book across both a Kindle and iPhone.
Amazon Extends Book Sales Beyond Its Kindle to iPhone [WSJ]
Amazon Kindle iPhone App Launches, E-Book Sales To Jump?
Silicon Alley Insider —
... We don't plan to buy a Kindle until they're much cheaper. But we could see ourselves buying Kindle titles for our phone in the meantime. (An Amazon exec told the WSJ he doesn't expect people to read for more than 20-30 minutes on the iPhone. But those 20 minutes on the subway are about the only reading time many of us ever get!) ...
News Bits: Amazon E-Books Now on Apple iPhone
Contentinople: —
... (Nasdaq: AMZN)'s e-books aren't just for Kindles anymore. The company has introduced a free software application that allows its e-books to be read also on ...
Amazon.com Releases Kindle E-Reader iPhone App
Alice Hill's Real Tech News - Independent Tech —
... feature, but it does include something the Kindle does not: color. Yea, comic books and graphic novels! Ian Freed, an Amazon vice president told the Wall Street Journal:“There are times when you’re going to be in a place where you happen to have your iPhone but not your Kindle. If I get stuck in line at the grocery store, I can pick up where I was reading with my iPhone.” This isn’t the first e-book reader for the iPhone, not by a long shot, but the ability to download Kindle-format e-books and to sync with a Kindle gives it an advantage over other such apps, and despite ...
Weekly Wrapup: New Facebook Homepages, Kindle for iPhone, DEMO Smarter Web, And More...
ReadWriteWeb —
... on Apple's popular mobile devices. This move comes just a few days after Amazon's Kindle 2 eBook reader arrived in users' hands, but according to Ian Freed, an Amazon vice president, Amazon does not expect that this app will cannibalize Kindle sales as users will probably only use their phones to read for short periods. ...
