Amazon announced that they will offer Kindle for Android, a free Android app that
lets readers access Kindle books on their Android
phones, in the summer. Kindle for Android enables customers to
discover and read York Times Bestsellers and New Releases from $9.99.
Like
all Kindle apps, Kindle for Android will include Amazon's Whispersync
technology, which saves and synchronizes a customer's bookmarks across
their Kindle, Kindle DX, iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, PC, Mac, BlackBerry
and, soon, Android, so customers always have their reading material with
them and never lose their place.
Android owners can take advantage of the features that customers love
about Kindle and Kindle app experience, including:
- Search more than 540,000
books, including 96 of 110 New York Times Bestsellers, plus tens
of thousands of the most popular classics for free directly from their
Android device. 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, and hundreds of
thousands of other popular books are $9.99 or less in the Kindle Store. - Browse by genre or author,
and take advantage of all the features that customers enjoy in the
Kindle Store, including Amazon.com customer reviews, personalized
recommendations and editorial reviews. - Access their library of
previously purchased Kindle books storedon Amazon's servers
for free. - Synchronize
last page read
between their Kindle, Kindle DX, iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, PC, Mac,
BlackBerry and, soon, Android. - Choose from five different
font sizes. - Read the
beginning of books
for free before they decide to buy. - Read in portrait or
landscape mode, tap on either side of the screen or flick to turn pages.
Customers can see a sneak peak and sign up to receive an e-mail when
Kindle for Android is available at http://www.amazon.com/kindleforandroid.