Amazon brings Kindle to Android

By on May 18, 2010 at 10:48 AM
eBooks May 18, 2010

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Amazon is turning up the heat in the e-book market by porting their popular Kindle for iPhone and BlackBerry application to Android. The Android app will resemble its iPhone counterpart with the ability to read, preview, and purchase books from Amazon’s Kindle bookstore, navigate with the flick of a finger, and sync reading progress across all supported platforms. The Android app also looks to be compatible with all the popular Android handsets including the DROID, Nexus One, and the HTC Incredible. It is expected to debut in the Android Market soon and you can sign up at Amazon to be the first to know when it lands.

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  • jack

    does this mean that it works on the nook?

    • zxc

      Look at this cool e-reader app I got for my e-reader

    • Luke in DC

      Go to http://www.ereader.com for a Nook compatible ereader for Android. ereader.com is owned by Barnes & Noble. For some stupid reason, the ereader app isn’t in the android market!

  • arthurj

    No.

  • StevenGlansburg

    The Kindle iphone app has already been around forever and is out now. Android as usual copying all things iphone…

    • Daniel Blois

      First off you can that just about any program out there – someone has probably created it before. Second, it is Amazon that is creating the program, not Google. Third, if it is a good idea of course you would copy it (as long as it is not patented)

    • jimbo

      lolwut? “Amazon bring Kindle to Android” AMAZON

    • StevenGlansburg

      You are all so dense. If you thought I was serious you are retarded.

    • robojerk

      LOL

      Some people need to see a sarcasm tag, they think everything they read on the interwebs is real.

  • Ar-Droid

    One step up for Android!!

  • http://theandroidguru.blogspot.com The Android Guru

    @StevenGlansburg

    Yea because Android makes its own apps. Get a clue Douche Nozzle…

  • Rob

    I hope the same apps for iPhone come out for android. Especially the games. It would be sweet to play words with friends with a friend that has android, or play nova against android users. Unfortunatly the iPhone games are to big for androids restricted app memory, so hopefully 2.2 fixes that and we can get some Cross platform love.

  • Norm

    Now let’s get android on the kindle, and put kindle for android on our Android Kindle

  • noname

    Will this work in the UK?

  • Eric

    Very cool! It is about time. Though, I don’t see me using it very often. I did try Kindle on my iPod Touch. I feel it is too small to be an eReader. There will one day be an Android Tablet though and I am sure that it is with this in mind that they are putting Kindle on Android.

    I love the options!! :)

  • http://www.google.com/profiles/Strodtbeck.C Strodtbeck

    Amazon getting on the Android bandwagon just in time for the slates/tablets to come out???

  • m.e.n.

    about time!

  • castlerock611

    This will work great with the huge screen on the evo.

  • jdlnmia

    Great news for those of us on the EVO 4G preorder list!

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