Kindle for the PC Announced – and it’s awesome! - Windows 7 Team Blog

Kindle for the PC Announced – and it’s awesome!

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Brandon LeBlanc
10:51 AM Thursday
Oct 22, 2009
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Today, Amazon announced “Kindle for PC” – a free application that let’s readers enjoy reading books purchased from the Kindle Store right on their Windows PC. Today the Kindle Store has over 360,000 books to purchase, download and read. That’s a lot of books. We showed off Kindle for PC today for the first time at our New York City Launch Party for Windows 7.

The beta for Kindle for PC will be available as a free download in November. You can sign-up here to receive an email when Kindle for PC Beta is available.

Kindle for PC takes advantage of key Windows 7 features such as Windows Touch for zooming in and out with a pinch of the fingers and turning pages with the swipe of a finger. It also includes integration with the Windows Taskbar through a Jump List. I’ve been playing with it for the last few days on my HP TouchSmart tx2 and it’s wonderful.

Kindle for PC will also run on PCs running Windows XP and Windows Vista as well.

The Kindle for PC application also uses Amazon’s Whispersync technology. This allows the application to sync bookmarks and the last read page across PCs (and other devices such as the Kindle and Kindle DX).

Here is a demo of Kindle for PC in action!

Tags: Windows 7, Announcement, Windows Taskbar, Windows Touch, Jump List, eBooks, HP TouchSmart tx2, Amazon, E-Reader, Kindle, Whispersync, Kindle for PC

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newscientist2000

Posted on: October 22, 2009 at 11:11AM
Nice, great that its a free app. Nice that it plays nicely with Windows 7 too, hopefully the war between the Kindle, Nook and other portable devices will improve this technology and drive innovation forward.

It would be nice if my wife could get all her nursing school books in an electronic format as carrying them is bad for her back, so far only a handful of books are available, which is a shame.

The PC edition of the Kindle software is also great as it will allow users to try out some of the e-book experience without having to shell out immediately for another device.
hoyty

Posted on: October 22, 2009 at 12:18PM
Does this signify the death the of the competing Microsoft Reader www.microsoft.com/reader ?
newscientist2000

Posted on: October 22, 2009 at 3:38PM
Man, Comcast just sent me a bill they're going to up the cost of the modem / digital voice box rental to $5 a month from $3 a month.

Yup its nice to get something like this e-book reader for free, almost makes up for Comcast.
dugunsalonu

Posted on: October 25, 2009 at 10:48AM
neden hiç türkçe desteği yok hiç birşey anlamıyoruz

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