Thursday, December 9, 2010

Amazon Announces Kindle For Web And Google Chrome

When Amazon launched Kindle is to Web progressing this year, you all cried "what?!" The service let you preview tiny snippets of Kindle ebooks in your browser, and that was about it. It type of valid itself as a way to publicize books on other sites, interjection to embedding features, but it remained a curiosity.

Now Amazon has voiced an update, bringing the full Kindle experience to the browser, and moreover to Google's new Chrome Web Store, meaning any cover running Google's Chrome OS . You'll be able to read whole books on any web-connected device, and if you hide books on your site and people read them there, you'll consequence associate fees.

Kindle seems to be the default choice for getting more information ebooks: There's a Kindle app for flattering sufficient everything, and Amazon has the greatest catalog, too, notably if you live outward the US where things similar to Apple's iBooks Store are crippled. I outlay roughly as sufficient time in the Kindle app on my iPad as I do in Safari.

Putting the Kindle on the web is smart, and shows that Amazon is way more meddlesome in selling Kindle books than selling Kindle hardware. Hell, even the Barnes Noble Nook has a browser. Maybe you could even read Kindle books on that?

Kindle is to Web [Amazon]

All Website Can Now Be a Bookstore [Amazon press release]

See Also:

Five Things Google's Chrome OS Will Do for Your Netbook

Google Chrome OS Not Ready for Primetime Yet

With Chrome OS, Google Doubles Down on the Cloud

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