Amazon Kindle Now Also an iPhone App

3:50PM March 4, 2009 | Elaine Chow

All you whiners who blabbed on and on about how you’d rather just read e-books on your iPhone: Amazon apparently heard you and now has a Kindle app out on iTunes. What?

The free program brings several of the Kindle’s functions to the iPod and iPhone’s much smaller, non E-Ink screen – including the same electronic books, magazines and newspapers that Kindle owners can buy on Amazon.com, and the ability to change text size, add bookmarks, note and highlight stuff. If you already have both a Kindle and an iPhone, Amazon’s program will sync the two so that you can keep your bookmarks on both devices.

While my first thought was “Jesus (not Diaz), Amazon’s bent on cannibalising itself,” I guess the move kind of makes sense. People who want e-ink will still buy the Kindle, but perhaps this helps steal sales from the other iTunes eBook bookstore.

Comments

Scott

March 4, 2009 at 8:58 PM

Looks like it wont be availbel for Australian users. It is not appearing in Itunes currently. Why do we miss out on these things

Paul

March 4, 2009 at 9:15 PM

YAY something else not avalible in the AU iTunes store :S

mr-crash

March 5, 2009 at 1:54 AM

I wonder if there’s a particular reason this isn’t available in Australia yet. Hardware kindle I can kind of understand. A piece of software not being available doesn’t really make much sense to me though.

Michael Sharkey

March 5, 2009 at 9:03 AM

Doesn’t appear to be a worldwide release which is a shame, us Australians read to :)

mathew

April 21, 2009 at 1:59 PM

because it would send millions of dollars oversea to amazon
we need aussie apps …

Helen Jones

November 6, 2009 at 2:26 PM

I have ereader app on my iphone, but only one out of every 6 books that I would like to download is not “Geographically Restricted”.
Come on Amazon, if you want to sell Kindles to Aussies, you have to supply the the reading material. I would like to try the Kindle app first before I outlay for a Kindle ereader, then find I can’t buy the books I want.

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