Arriving just a few weeks after the launch of Amazon’s second iteration of its e-book reader, Kindle 2, the even newer Kindle for iPhone is more of an additional tool rather than a solution itself. Users can access all the e-books they bought so far from their Amazon account and then download them onto the iPhone. However, any newspaper and magazine subscriptions cannot be transferred. Such a restriction is a common disadvantage for those early adopters.
Of course, Amazon’s Kindle app for the iPhone is not the first or the only e-book reader for the iPhone. But this application brings together something that other similar apps on the iPhone might lack — a massive 240,000 specially formatted book library and a dedicated place (Amazon’s Website) to easily buy e-books at a lower price than the physical counterpart. Last month the mobile version of Google Book Search for iPhone and Android made its debut, giving users access to more 1.5 million public domain books.
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