Amazon makes Kindle eBooks available to competitors (iPhone??).

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Amazon to offer Kindle e-books on cell phones

NEW YORK (AP) -- Books that Amazon.com Inc. sells for its Kindle electronic reading device will also be available on cell phones, too.

Amazon spokesman Drew Herdener said Friday that the Seattle-based online retailer is working on making Kindle books available "on a range of mobile phones." The company is not yet saying when the books will be available, or on which phones.

Another e-book provider, Mobipocket, which is owned by Amazon, already sells titles that can be read on numerous smart phones. And on Thursday, Google Inc. announced that titles available from its Book Search service can now be read on Apple Inc.'s iPhone or a phone running its Android operating system. For now that would just be the G1, which is sold by T-Mobile.

Amazon is widely expected to unveil a new version of the Kindle device at a news conference Monday at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York.

The company has not released sales figures for the first version of the Kindle, which it rolled out in late 2007. Amazon said last fall it sold out of the $359 device after Oprah Winfrey endorsed it. The company has made 230,000 titles available on the Kindle, which can download books wirelessly.

 

[Drumjim85]

Wasn't there an article on engadget today about the G1 teaming up with amazon.

EDIT: No, it was a tease ...

 

[mkrishnan]

This is super exciting.... I'm curious to see what exactly they offer, but if, like their music offerings, they make it so that they work pretty well with iTunes and the iPhone, and they come up with a decent app for the iPhone, this could be really amazing.

Aside... Steve Jobs comment is ridiculous. Completely aside from successful sales of books in all categories, just the single example of Stephanie Meyer and Twilight (not to mention J.K. Rowling) would seriously argue against the idea that reading is not a "popular" activity anymore....

 

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Aside... Steve Jobs comment is ridiculous. Completely aside from successful sales of books in all categories, just the single example of Stephanie Meyer and Twilight (not to mention J.K. Rowling) would seriously argue against the idea that reading is not a "popular" activity anymore....

According to the sales figures, there were at least 750,000 people who thought enough of reading that they shelled out the cash for an expensive and hard to find Kindle in 2008, so that's proof enough of a market for me!

 

[surferfromuk]

Kindle is going to do for books what Apple did for Music....

 

[Drumjim85]

Kindle is going to do for books what Apple did for Music....

I'm not so sure about that....

 

[PlaceofDis]

Kindle is going to do for books what Apple did for Music....

its a step, but the interface isnt there yet.

 

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its a step, but the interface isnt there yet.

I don't know if you saw, but in the other Kindle thread I mentioned how it was updated today.

Still not at a point where it will be the "iPod of Books" yet, but at least they're not standing still...

 

[Abstract]

This is super exciting.... I'm curious to see what exactly they offer, but if, like their music offerings, they make it so that they work pretty well with iTunes and the iPhone, and they come up with a decent app for the iPhone*, this could be really amazing.

*that isn't rejected immediately by Apple


I added a caveat for you.

Aside... Steve Jobs comment is ridiculous. Completely aside from successful sales of books in all categories, just the single example of Stephanie Meyer and Twilight (not to mention J.K. Rowling) would seriously argue against the idea that reading is not a "popular" activity anymore....

Well then ridiculous old Steve shouldn't feel any threat by letting such an app be released for the iPhone. Perhaps I should remove any such caveat then, because there really shouldn't be such a problem.

Release one for Symbian S60 v3 (and up) users, please.

 

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Hi.

Plastic Logic Announces Content Partners -- Opens Publisher's Platform.

It'll act like the App Store, but for writers. Major publishers will also be a part of it, of course.



I wanted an A4 Plastic Logic reader since last year, and after this announcement, I want it more than before.

 

[mkrishnan]

*that isn't rejected immediately by Apple

Don't worry -- I'm sure that Amazon can add jiggling boobies to it and it'll get accepted right away.

Kindle 2. New coupe, no roof, player what's my name? Seven times the space. Looks good. Although the intimation that the Kindle books may appear on all those cell phones no one cares about anymore the iPhone is of course far more interesting. We shall see what comes of this.