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.
(The Amazon Kindle application is now available for smartphones running Google’s Android.)
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.
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