Amazon Kindle app comes to the iPhone
If you’ve been feeling left out because it seems everyone and their moms are grabbing a Kindle and you spent your tax refund on an iPhone, Amazon has come to the rescue! On March 3, Kindle for the iPhone has been released and is free in the iTunes App Store. All you bookworms can now get the same content as Kindle owners can, which includes books, magazines and newspapers. Tons of great Kindle features are there, too, so you can adjust font size on screen, make notes and highlight content. The only catch is that the app can’t access the Kindle store and purchases have to be made through the browser. It’s a minor annoyance, sure, but a very small price to pay for such a great application. Other e-book readers for the iPhone are probably feeling a little heat now as the reputation and the hype over the Kindle is enough to get these apps flying out of the iTunes store. If you’ve been mulling the purchase of a Kindle and can manage reading on a much smaller screen, you might want to consider giving the Kindle for iPhone app a shot.
Goes to show ya Amazon is into Kindle to make money selling books, not devices.
So hey Amazon, Blackberry Storm app please and you have me!
how about just a blackberry, most normal bb people dont have a storm…
Any word on if I could use the Amazon mobile app to purchase ebooks for it?
I’m hoping Amazon releases an app for their MP3 store to S60. I know Apple wont let it happen on the iPhone, and Nokia wont be happy about it either, but S60 is open…
Not avaiable on the Canadian App Store
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Good in theory, bad in practice…Talk about eye strain.
I don’t think you can get magazines and newspapers on the app, just books. Most likely, somebody(s) wants more money for their stuff to be read on the iPhone in addition to the Kindle…or maybe they’re working on it.
Now only if there was an iphone with a bigger screen. Call it a mac tablet
Say goodbye to Kindle 2. iPhone is all you need. It’s also a phone!
We need a BlackBerry Kindle App!
Is it just the books? I tried to download a newspaper and it wouldn’t let me. It kept saying I didn’t have a device registered but I could see my iPhone on my account page.
Bezos: a Blackberry app first because I already have one of those. 2nd: you and I need one for the Sony e-reader. A lot of people love your Kindle thingy, I don’t. The people who don’t like the Kindle thing, there other most likely option is the Sony e-reader. Sony e-reader is 2nd.
It’s a good thing you can highlight content. Makes it easier to copy and paste.
This is very useful. i have read many ebooks on the iPhone. The fonts are adjustible. While I have been happy with the other various e-readers, there is a problem with their libraries. The reviews are not from tons of people and are not valid at least for me. The Amazon reviews tend to be more reliable. I’ll bet I choose better books.
Hey–the app is free and the first chapter of every book is free. Why not try it. you do have to use the web, either on a PC, Mac or iPhone Safari, but the stuff comes over in seconds to the iPhone.
I’d love to have a kindle, I like the larger screen size and easy to read screen and would prefer that to reading on a phone…