Amazon brings Kindle software on the iPhone.

The announcement came without warning: starting Wednesday, the online mail-order an Amazon Kindle software for iPod touch and iPhone offer. First opens the company so that its digital books treasure for devices from other manufacturers - not without deeper meaning.

 

The Kindle program for Apple's mobile gadgets is starting Wednesday in Apple's App Store for download. The company has argued that the software will allow Apple users, the same electronic editions of books, newspapers and magazines on their devices to look like Kindle buyers. With one big difference: While the
E-book Reader Amazon Kindle 2, that will cost $ 359, the iPhone and iPod software free of charge.

The special thing is not that there is now an e-book software for Apple products, such programs have existed for a long time. The special feature is that Amazon's Kindle for the first time produced content to another device available.

It is hardly Apple's user restrictions to the original feel. All content for the Kindle 2 special offers will also be using the new software to be usable. Since the Apple devices as opposed to Amazon's reader, however, equipped with color screens are produced according to books on the iPhone even in color. The Kindle, on the other hand has only a monochrome display.

Apple users need to read yourself

Forget the iPhone-users have, however,
the controversial ability of the Kindle, text aloud. In addition, they must be new books on the computer on the Amazon web buying, while the Kindle via the wireless network to the current 240,000 titles in Amazon's digital library can access.

Who do both devices, ie a Kindle and an iPod or an iPhone, take their digital books can synchronize with each other. So begins one example, a book on the Kindle to read can be found on the Apple cell phone exactly at the point more to the man on the Kindle is removed by the bookmarks of the devices are synchronized with each other. Digital donkey ears, so to speak.

The development of the Kindle software for iPhone and iPod touch have several months, said Ian Fred, Amazon's vice president for the Kindle. Fear that free software could be potential customers from buying Kindle-hold, the company did not seem quite the opposite. Much more will be supply to use as bait, hoping in this way, technikaffine users to the system used Kindle, and finally move to buy them.

Whether and when the software is also available in Germany, was on Wednesday morning not to know.