Amazon Gives Apple iPhone Users New Kindle Ebook App

By: Jennifer Hong
Staff Writer
Published: Mar 4, 2009

Amazon has released a new application for the Apple iPhone 3G and iPod touch. The new application can be downloaded for free and offers mobile phone users a variety of electronic books online.

Amazon has announced a Kindle e-book application for Apple Inc's iPhone 3G and iPod touch. The e-book application can be downloaded for free and offers mobile phone users a complete library of online e-books. The electronic books are the same price for the Kindle.

"We are excited to bring the new Kindle application to Apple's App Store and think customers are going to love how easy and fun it is to read their Kindle books on the iPhone and iPod touch," Ian Freed, vice president, Amazon Kindle, said in a statement.

Amazon Kindle for Apple iPhone and iPod touch offers more than 240,000 e-books online.

Apple iPhone and iPod touch customers can now download e-books directly from Amazon. It offers mobile phone users a great way on catching up with a best-seller book, or reading a news magazine between appointments. The application also includes the Amazon Whispersync technology.

The Whispersync technology can synchronize bookmarks across the Kindle, Kindle 2, iPhone and iPod touch. This feature saves the bookmarks so that users can easily resume reading where they last left off. The technology is decent and the synchronization portion is probably one of the greatest benefits.

Most critics have reviewed the Amazon Kindle 2 with high praise. This wasn't so for the original Kindle, which received mixed reviews while some critics called the e-book reader a bulky design. Even so, customers still purchased the Kindle and shopped for e-books on Amazon's Web site.

Amazon Kindle has over 240,000 books available from its store which includes 104 New York Times Bestsellers. Electronic book readers can also access newspapers, magazines and blogs. Amazon also offers a subscription which can deliver the e-book reading material automatically to the Kindle, or the Apple iPhone.