Amazon.com Announces PC Kindle Software

October 27th, 2009 | admin | 0 views | 0 Comments

It’s been a while in coming, but Amazon.com has released an application for Windows PCs that allows downloading and reading Kindle books on your computer. The application will even allow bookmarking and through Amazon’s Whispersync technology, sync across all Amazon.com’s Kindle apps, whether on your iPhone / iPod touch or Kindle itself.

This sort of read anywhere (Kindle-wise) and have everything synced up between your Kindle apps / devices has been something Amazon.com has been emphasizing as an advantage since it came out with multiple ways to access Kindle e-books. It’s something it needs to continue to emphasize as a selling point with the iPhone app already available.

For those who eschew Windows for the Mac, there will be a Mac version as well, but it will come at an unconfirmed later date. The Windows app will be released as a free download in November, the company said in a press release, and has Windows Touch technology for Windows 7 users.

Here’s what Amazon.com’s press release said about the PC version’s features:
With Kindle for PC, readers can take advantage of the following features:

Purchase, download, and read hundreds of thousands of books available in the Kindle Store
Access their entire library of previously purchased Kindle books stored on Amazon’s servers for free
Choose from over 10 different font sizes and adjust words per line
Add and automatically synchronize bookmarks and last page read
View notes and highlights marked on Kindle and Kindle DX
Zoom in and out of text with a pinch of the fingers (Windows 7 users only)
Turn pages with a finger swipe (available in a future release for Windows 7 users)

With desktop Kindle software, users can finally buy and read books from Amazon’s Kindle library without additional hardware. Well, except for a PC, which, if you’re reading this, you probably own. And if you really, really wanted to, and you have an appropriate laptop, you could hook your laptop up to a big-screen TV and read your Kindle books there, too.