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Amazon demonstrates brand-new Kindle for a Web, entrance to Chrome Web Store early subsequent year

Posted in December 7th, 2010
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Amazon demonstrates brand-new Kindle for a Web, entrance to Chrome Web Store early subsequent year

What do you do when a web’s 500-pound Googorilla decides to flesh in on your movement? Amazon’s answer, assumingly, is to work with said primate. Instead of making pouty faces about Google eBooks, the Kindle purveyor has unwrapped a brand-new chronicle of its Kindle for a Web browser-based reader and is rolling it into Google’s Chrome Web Store. Up until now, this web charity usually ever permitted a expenditure of book samples in its short beta existence, though that’s the reduction that Amazon is light with the brand-new software, earnest to “capacitate users to review full books in a browser and [enable] any Website to turn the bookstore offering Kindle books.” And hey, given it’s upon a web, you shouldn’t have any difficulty accessing it on Chrome OS, possibly! Coming to the Web Store nearby you early next year.
Show full PR textEvery Website Can Now Be the Bookstore

Kindle for a Web enables customers to read full content of Kindle books in their web browser – no download or designation compulsory

Websites are invited to experience in decentralized e-book sales

Kindle for a Web is Chrome OS launch partner
SEATTLE, Dec 07, 2010 (BUSINESS HANDLE —

(NASDAQ: AMZN) – Two months ago, Amazon launched Kindle for a Web, creation it probable to review giveaway first chapters of Kindle books by web browsers. Today, Amazon voiced which Kindle for a Web will enhance to capacitate anybody with access to a web browser to buy as well as review full Kindle books – no download or designation required. For the first time ever, bookstores, alternative retailers, authors, bloggers and other website owners will be means to offer Kindle books from their own sites, let their readers start enjoying the full content of these books instantly, and consequence mention fees through a Amazon Associates Program for sales done by their sites. Website owners can embed the Kindle for a Web widget in the matter of seconds and begin offering Kindle books. The update to Kindle for the Web was demonstrated on-stage during a Google Chrome event currently and will await Chrome OS devices, together with a brand-new Chrome OS Notebook, as good as a Chrome browser as well as alternative web browsers.

“Kindle for the Web makes it probable for bookstores, authors, retailers, bloggers or alternative website owners to suggest Kindle books upon their websites as well as consequence associate fees for you do so,” pronounced Russ Grandinetti, Vice President, Kindle Content. “Anyone with entrance to a web browser can discover the seamless as well as consistent experience that comes with Kindle books. Kindle books can be review upon the $139 third-generation Kindle device with brand-new high-contrast Pearl e-Ink, upon iPads, iPod touches, iPhones, Macs, PCs, BlackBerrys and Android-based devices. And now, anywhere you have the web browser. Your understanding library, final page read, bookmarks, records, as well as highlights have been regularly available to you no matter where you bought your Kindle books or how you select to review them.”

Kindle for the Web joins Amazon’s far-reaching preference of giveaway understanding apps for iPad, iPod hold, iPhone, Mac, PERSONAL COMPUTER, BlackBerry and Android-based inclination which let business review as well as sync their understanding library, bookmarks, records, and highlights with a device or height of their choice.

The Kindle Store offers a largest preference of books people want to review, together with 101 of 111 New York Times Bestsellers as well as New Releases from $9.99. Millions of comparison, out-of-copyright, pre-1923 books have been additionally available to review. Kindle books offer readers many additional singular advantages, together with:

Buy Once, Read Everywhere apps let you sync as well as review your books, final page review, bookmarks, notes as well as highlights opposite Kindle devices as well as the many popular devices as well as platforms
Amazon’s Worry-Free Archive automatically backs up your books as well as highlights online in your Kindle library where they can be re-downloaded wirelessly for giveaway, anytime upon any Kindle device or app
Amazon.com patron reviews, personalized recommendations as well as editorial reviews
Instant 1-click shopping using your Amazon comment report
Kindle for a Web was demoed on-stage currently at Google’s Chrome event, where assembly members saw a speed as well as fluidity of Kindle for the Web handling on Chrome OS. Kindle for the Web will support Chrome OS inclination, together with the all-new Chrome OS Notebook announced currently. Kindle for a Web takes value of HTML5 to give users the abounding application experience. Kindle for a Web will be accessible in the coming months. More report about Kindle for a Web is accessible at www.amazon.com/kindlefortheweb.

Via Engadget

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