Amazon Kindle For iPhone

1:27 am EST March 4th, 2009 | News | 3 Comments

kindle for iphone

Well, the e-book just got interesting…

Starting Wednesday, owners of these Apple devices can download a free application, Kindle for iPhone and iPod Touch, from Apple’s App Store. The software will give them full access to the 240,000 e-books for sale on Amazon.com, which include a majority of best sellers.

The move comes a week after Amazon started shipping the updated version of its Kindle reading device. It signals that the company may be more interested in becoming the pre-eminent retailer of e-books than in being the top manufacturer of reading devices.

You can download Kindle for iPhone here.

My guess is that as the prices come down for these devices the book publishers who don’t adapt to pushing their authors via digital are going to go the way of the newspapers.

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3 Responses to “Amazon Kindle For iPhone”

  1. arbitrista says:
    March 4, 2009 at 6:26 am

    I must say I’m concerned that if e-books reach sufficient prominence, regular books will become so expensive that I won’t be able to afford them any more.

  2. roo roo says:
    March 4, 2009 at 8:00 am

    Would anyone want to read books on an Iphone? Just eat up the battery.

    Kindle2 is bad ass.

  3. Southern Quaker says:
    March 4, 2009 at 8:19 am

    Kindle2 is bad ass.

    Maybe. But as someone who has a child with visual learning disabilities, I’m rather pissed off that Amazon bowed to pressure from publishers and scaled back the text-to-speech feature.