Kindle on iPhone

4 March 2009

• No Kindle required
• Get the best reading experience available on your iPhone or iPod touch
• Access your Kindle books even if you don’t have your Kindle with you
• Automatically synchronizes your last page read between devices with Amazon Whispersync

It’s clear the Amazon means business with their online book store – they know that they’re not really cut out to be hardware manufacturer (although it’s obviously a nice side line). Their key strength is as an online retailer of content, and they obviously want to become the dominant force in this area (much like Apple with the iTunes Store). It wouldn’t surprise me if further down the road we see some kind of more formal Apple – Amazon hook up on this front (with books in the iTunes Store).

A real shame it’s not available outside the US though; I assume that – much like with the music industry – all the deals to provide content need to be done on a region-by-region basis.

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From: Links

4 March 2009