The Amazon Kindle comes to the iPhone... for free!
Amazon released today a free ebook reader application for the iPhone and iPod touch.
The Kindle for iPhone can download and read any books released for the Kindle.
The free app includes Amazon’s Whispersync technology which allows to seamlessly switch back and forth between an actual Kindle and the iPhone while keeping your bookmarks and the reading location where you stopped at.
The Kindle App can not access the Kindle Store!
However, there is currently no way to buy and browse new ebooks from within the application. Instead, you’ll have to go to the Amazon Kindle Store with the iPhone web browser, buy a book, which then shows up on the iPhone.
Amazon confirmed that it will support other devices in the future, probably Google’s Android phones, as well as most of the large screen smartphones.
Although the Kindle app cannibalizes the sale of the $359 Kindle 2 ebook reader, Amazon hopes it will help boost the sale of ebooks to compensate the loss.
The Kindle app release may also signal the beginning of the end for the many publishers that have developed an ebook reader application for the iPhone like eReader or Stanza.
