Kindle for iPhone and iPod touch Now Available For Free From Apple's App Store
Read some on your iPhone, read some on your Kindle, customers can now synchronize their reading and enjoy over 240,000 books, including 104 of 112 New York Times Bestsellers, on the iPhone and iPod touch
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar. 4, 2009-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN)
today introduced “Kindle for iPhone and iPod touch,” a new application available
for free from Apple's App Store that lets customers enjoy over 240,000 books,
including 104 of 112 New York Times Bestsellers, on the iPhone and iPod touch
using Apple's Multi-Touch user interface. Amazon's new Whispersync technology
saves and synchronizes a customer's bookmark across their original Kindle,
Kindle 2, iPhone and iPod touch, so customers always have their reading with
them and never lose their place. Kindle customers can read a few pages on their
iPhone or iPod touch and pick up right where they left off on their Kindle or
Kindle 2.
“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,” said Ian Freed, vice president, Amazon
Kindle. “Kindle for iPhone and iPod touch is a great way for customers to catch
up on their current book wherever they are, like in line at the grocery store or
between meetings.”
The Kindle application for iPhone and iPod touch lets customers bring their
Kindle books with them wherever they go and takes full advantage of Apple's
Multi-Touch user interface. With the new Kindle for iPhone and iPod touch
application, customers can:
Kindle for iPhone and iPod touch is available for free from Apple’s App Store
on iPhone and iPod touch or at www.itunes.com/appstore/.
About Amazon Kindle
Kindle is Amazon’s portable reader that wirelessly downloads books, blogs,
magazines and newspapers to a crisp, high-resolution electronic paper display
that looks and reads like real paper. In addition to the over 240,000 books
available on Kindle, including 104 of 112 New York Times Bestsellers and most
New Releases that are available for $9.99 or less, Kindle customers can access
newspapers, magazines, and blogs that are delivered automatically with
subscription or individually. For more information on Kindle, visit
www.amazon.com/kindle.
About Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened
on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth's Biggest Selection.
Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth's most customer-centric company, where
customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and
endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and
other sellers offer millions of unique new, refurbished and used items in
categories such as Books; Movies, Music & Games; Digital Downloads; Electronics
& Computers; Home & Garden; Toys, Kids & Baby; Grocery; Apparel; Shoes &
Jewelry; Health & Beauty; Sports & Outdoors; and Tools, Auto & Industrial.
Amazon Web Services provides Amazon’s developer customers with access to
in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon's own back-end technology
platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any type of business.
Examples of the services offered by Amazon Web Services are Amazon Elastic
Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon
SimpleDB, Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Flexible Payments
Service (Amazon FPS), Amazon Mechanical Turk and Amazon CloudFront.
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and www.amazon.cn. As used herein, “Amazon.com,” “we,” “our” and similar terms
include Amazon.com, Inc., and its subsidiaries, unless the context indicates
otherwise.
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Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934. Actual results may differ significantly from management's
expectations. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties
that include, among others, risks related to competition, management of growth,
new products, services and technologies, potential fluctuations in operating
results, international expansion, outcomes of legal proceedings and claims,
fulfillment center optimization, seasonality, commercial agreements,
acquisitions and strategic transactions, foreign exchange rates, system
interruption, indebtedness, inventory, government regulation and taxation,
payments and fraud. More information about factors that potentially could affect
Amazon.com's financial results is included in Amazon.com's filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent Annual Report on
Form 10-K and subsequent filings.
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