Amazon’s attempt to boost sales by encouraging every user to buy and read off their Kindle Store even if you don’t have the latest Kindle 2? Amazon this week has released a free application that delivers Kindle book-reading to the iPhone (and iPod Touch of course), extending the company’s sales of e-books to devices beyond its Kindle e-book reader.
Main features of the Kindle app include:
- Buy a Kindle book from your Mac, PC, or iPhone using a Web browser
- Read first chapters of any book for free before you buy
- Download the Kindle books you already own for free — they are automatically backed up on Amazon.com
- Adjust the text size, add bookmarks, and view the annotations you created on your Kindle device
Kindle for iPhone also includes Whispersync, which allows you to seamlessly switch back and forth between your Kindle device and Kindle for iPhone while keeping your bookmarks and reading location synchronized between devices. This is great and allows users to pick up reading right where you left off on your Kindle or iPhone.
Books you purchase through your iPhone can also be read on Kindle and Kindle 2, Amazon’s portable readers that wirelessly download books, newspapers, magazines, and blogs to a crisp, high-resolution 6-inch electronic-paper display that looks and reads like real paper.
Check out Kindle for iPhone through iTunes here…
[via TechFlash]
