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April 05, 2010

Gadgets -Amazon.com Debuts Kindle App for iPad


Allowing the users of iPad to search and read thousands of books in the digital format, Amazon.com, has announced its Kindle App for iPad is now available in the App Store. The Kindle Store on iPad features Amazon Whispersync technology, the company stated.

Offering users the ability to read Kindle books using a beautiful, easy-to-use interface, the Kindle app is optimized for the iPad, iPhone (News - Alert), and iPod touch. The books can also be read on your Mac, PC, BlackBerry, Kindle.

Kindle App for iPad will now help the readers choose from over 450,000 books available in the Kindle Store, including new releases and New York Times Bestsellers, plus tens of thousands of the most popular classics. These titles include “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,” “Pride and Prejudice,” and “Treasure Island.” Bestsellers such as “Backlash” by Aaron Allston, “Big Girl” by Danielle Steel, “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot, and “The Lost Symbol” by Dan Brown.

“Kindle for iPad includes all the features customers love about Kindle for iPhone, including a massive selection of over 450,000 books, along with a beautiful new user interface tailored to the look and feel of iPad,” said Jay Marine, director, Amazon Kindle. “Kindle for iPad is the perfect companion for the millions of customers who already own a Kindle or Kindle DX.”

With this, customers can search for a specific book or browse by genre or author, and can take advantage of all the features which include automatic syncs with kindle and kindle compatible device, customizable appearance and page turn animation.

Recently, the company it was cuttingties with its Colorado-based affiliate marketers, those Web sites and bloggers that help to sell its products. This cut was in response to the Colorado law that would require the online retailer to collect up to roughly $4.6 million in online sales taxes each year. This is because Colorado has changed the way it handles taxing online sales through retailers like Amazon.


Raju Shanbhag is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Raju’s articles, please visit his columnist page.

Edited by Erin Harrison
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