Amazon Kindle heads to the PC

Posted by David Walker on Fri 23 Oct 2009

Mac and BlackBerry app also incoming

Not content with offering a standalone device or three and an iPhone app, Amazon is now bringing the Kindle to the PC, specifically Windows machines and probably from next month. Oh yes, the app will be free too.

Microsoft demonstrated it at the Windows 7 launch event in New York on Thursday, highlighting how it can turn your humble computer into a reading device via your Kindle account. No, you don't have to already own a Kindle device, you can set up a Kindle account separately in order to use the free app.

After that, you can choose to send Kindle e-books and magazines to your PC via a wired or wireless network connection, forwarding to your iPhone or Kindle for reading where you left off, should you so wish.

'Customers have told us that they want access to a wider variety of content and an increasingly diverse set of form factors,' said Mike Nash, corporate vice president of Windows Platform Strategy at Microsoft. 'With the announcement of Kindle for PC, Amazon is making its massive selection of Kindle books available on the world's most widely used platform.'

It isn't Windows 7-only, but it does take advantage of 7's OS for a better experience. For example, you can zoom in and out of text with a pinch of the fingers and turn pages with a finger swipe.

As the Kindle itself is now international, we're presuming this will be UK-friendly, although that hasn't been confirmed as yet. But what has been confirmed is an even longer reach for the Kindle. According to Drew Herdener, Amazon.com's Director of Communications, an app for both Mac computers and the BlackBerry will be around in a matter of months. Good luck with reading War and Peace on the latter's screen. You'll need it.

Link: Amazon (via Cnet)

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