After Amazon’s success developing an iPad app , they’ve now tailored apps for Android and Windows tablet platforms, doing the same old: giving access to 775,000 ebooks, which might be bought once and browse on various platforms.
Those platforms now include Kindles, iPads, iPod Touches, iPhones, Android phones, BlackBerry phones, Macs and even PCs.
Amazon to Introduce Free Kindle Apps Tailored for Android and Windows LCD Tablet Computers
New tablet computers coming in 2011 could have access to Amazon’s free ” Buy Once, Read Everywhere” apps that allow readers pick from over 775,000 Kindle books and skim them across the preferred devices and platforms
SEATTLE – Jan. 4, 2011– (NASDAQ: AMZN)– For over two years, Amazon has been building and introducing a good selection of free ” Buy Once, Read Everywhere” Kindle apps to enable customers to read their Kindle books on the preferred devices and platforms. Last year, Amazon tailored a Kindle app specifically for the scale, feel and appear of the iPad and it has become a top ten free app for iPad. Today, Amazon announced that Kindle apps may also be tailored specifically for Android and Windows based tablets to enable customers to access the Kindle Store, and with it the most important selection of the books people desire to read. Like every Kindle apps, the brand new Kindle apps built for Android and Windows tablet computers will let customers ” Buy Once, Read Everywhere” -on Kindle, Kindle 3G, Kindle DX, iPad, iPod touch, iPhone, Mac, PC, BlackBerry, and Android-based devices. For additional information concerning the free Kindle apps, go to www.amazon.com/kindleapps.
” Kindle is light weight, easy on the eyes with a paper-like Pearl e-ink display, and has a whole month of battery life. It’s purpose-built for reading. Many of us are buying both a Kindle and an LCD tablet computer,” said Dorothy Nicholls, Director, Amazon Kindle. ” We’re very excited to support the imminent Android and Windows LCD tablet computers with free Kindle apps that we’ll tailor for the specific devices. Our Whispersync technology makes it simple to go from side to side between devices. Read in your Kindle, read for your tablet, read in your phone. We’ll keep track of your last page read, and make it easy.”
The Kindle Store offers the most important selection of books people wish to read, including 100 of 110 Big apple Times Bestsellers and New Releases from $9.99. Millions of older, out-of-copyright, pre-1923 books are also available to read. Kindle books offer readers many additional unique advantages, including:
” Buy Once, Read Everywhere” apps allow you to sync and skim your books, last page read, bookmarks, notes and highlights across Kindle devices and the preferred devices and platforms
Amazon’s Worry-Free Archive automatically backs up your books and highlights online on your Kindle library where they are able to be re-downloaded wirelessly anytime on any Kindle device or app
Amazon.com customer reviews, personalized recommendations and editorial reviews
Instant 1-click buying using your Amazon account information
For over two years, Amazon has been building and introducing a wide range of free ” Buy Once, Read Everywhere” Kindle apps for iPad, iPod touch, iPhone, Mac, PC, BlackBerry and Android-based devices that permit customers read and sync their reading library, bookmarks, notes, and highlights with the device or platform of their choice. Learn more about Kindle apps at www.amazon.com/kindleapps.
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