Amazon Kindle app17 provided iPad: 00 22/03/2010, Michael Grothaus, amazon, books, ebook, eReader, ibookstore, IPAD, lighting, the Unofficial Apple We

Amazon Kindle app17 provided iPad: 00 22/03/2010, Michael Grothaus, amazon, books, ebook, eReader, ibookstore, IPAD, lighting, the Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
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Amazon has launched a preview page for your application Kindle iPad. The application itself has plenty of iBookstore, including visual and cover page swipes View log book (of course, that Apple did just "borrow" a few things from Wil Shipley). A cool eye candy feature Kindle application 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 outlined changes according to what time of day it is.

Ebook war is heating up, although from the outset, it seems that Apple and Amazon will be the two main actors. Given that Amazon last week smaller publishers threatened to stop selling his books when they are made available on the iBookstore, it might seem at first sight strange that Amazon is so easy to embrace the iPad. But in an era where content is king, sales of hardware in the background to the sale of its contents, followed. Amazon iPad support is like giving away razors so people who by the blades - and in fact Amazon has begun to give their own hardware to subscribers Kindle Amazon Prime to ensure the sales of Kindle books. Who knows, in the future depending on several 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
Kindle application provided iPad TUAWAmazon originally appeared 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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