Amazon Kindle app17 always iPad: 00 22/03/2010, Michael Grothaus, amazon, books, ebook, eReader, ibookstore, IPAD, lighting, Unofficial Apple Weblog (

Amazon Kindle app17 always iPad: 00 22/03/2010, Michael Grothaus, amazon, books, ebook, eReader, ibookstore, IPAD, lighting, Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
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Amazon has launched a preview page for your application Kindle iPad. The application itself has a lot of iBookstore, including visual and cover Swipes View log book page (of course, that Apple does not just "borrow" a couple of things from Wil Shipley). A fresh eye candy application Kindle feature is that application developers have played a bit with reading Kindle figure outlined in the framework of an iconography of the tree. At the top of the navigation view, the sky behind the figure indicates changes according to what time of day it is.

Ebook war is heating up, although from the outset, it seems that Apple and Amazon are the two main actors. Given that the smaller publishers last week threatened to quit Amazon to sell their books when they are available in iBookstore might at first seem strange that Amazon is very easy to embrace the iPad. But in an era where content is king, sales of hardware in the bottom of the sale of its contents, followed. Support iPad Amazon is like giving away razors so people who by the blades - and in fact, Amazon has started taking their own equipment to subscribers Kindle Amazon Prime to ensure the sale of Kindle books. Who knows, in future, depending on various tablets / voters will be the norm, perhaps giving a characteristic eReaders dedicated to becoming a standard practice?

Last week, Amazon introduced its Kindle reader for Mac
Application Kindle TUAWAmazon iPad originally envisaged in the Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms of use of feed.


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