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Amazon Announces All-New Kindle App—Easier Than Ever to Read and Connect with Friends.

All-new Kindle app turns your phone or tablet into a book—read anytime, anywhere.

An app built for book lovers—with everything you need all in one place, seamlessly move between the pages of your book, your library, your personal bookstore, and more.

Be part of a community of readers—with Goodreads built into Kindle for iOS you can now discover and discuss books with friends, authors, and more.

Today, Amazon announced an all-new Kindle app that makes it easier than ever to turn your phone or tablet into a book—so you can read anytime, anywhere. The Kindle app is designed for book lovers and provides easy access to the most popular Kindle features—you can effortlessly move between the pages of your book, your library, your personalized bookstore and more. 

Also, with the Goodreads community built into Kindle for iOS, you can easily discover and discuss books with friends. The all-new Kindle app is available now in the App Store and Google Play, and will be delivered as part of a free, over-the-air update starting this week.

“We’ve built the new Kindle app from the ground up for book lovers, giving readers easy access to everything they might want to do with their books, all in one place,” said Chuck Moore, Vice President, Kindle. “It’s now easier than ever to turn your phone or tablet into a book and immerse yourself in an author’s world at any time.”

All-New Design

With the new Kindle app, it is easier to get to what you want. Whether it’s starting the next chapter in the book you’re reading or a quick search through your library, the all-new design makes switching back and forth seamless. Key updates include:

All-New Look—The Kindle app features a new look and feel inspired by books. Details include larger book covers, new fonts, a new app icon, and new light and dark background themes to choose from.

One-Tap Access—New bottom bar navigation automatically shows an icon of the book you’re currently reading, making it easier than ever to get back to reading at any moment. The bottom bar also provides quick access to Kindle’s most popular features allowing you to switch between the pages of your book, your library, your personal bookstore, and more.

Easy Search—The search bar is now always available throughout the app, so whether a book is in your library or among the millions of titles in the Kindle Store, it’s easier than ever to find it.

Discover and Discuss Books with Friends and the Goodreads Community on Kindle for iOS

The new Kindle for iOS app also helps customers discuss and get book recommendations from their friends, authors, and other readers with the Goodreads community now built right into the app. Goodreads, an Amazon subsidiary, is the world’s largest community of readers, with more than 65 million members.

“For as long as there have been books, people have discussed them with friends,” said Otis Chandler, CEO and co-founder of Goodreads. “When you finish an amazing book, you can’t wait to find out if other readers feel the same way. Readers trust their friends for recommendations, with around half of them saying they discover books through word-of-mouth. With the new features on Kindle, connecting with your friends and similar readers in the Goodreads community is now built into the app.”

Reading is better when you can discuss it with friends. In Kindle for iOS you can now:

Find New Books to Read—Browse the new Community tab to keep up-to-date with what friends and readers you follow are reading. When you find a book you are interested in, you can add it to your Want to Read list for quick reference when you are ready to start your next book.

Connect with Readers Who Like Similar Books—To help you get recommendations from readers who like the same books, Goodreads also suggests people to follow, including authors and popular Goodreads reviewers.

Share Your Thoughts About Books You’ve Read—Post notes and highlights from your book for friends to see and comment on. Easily share when you start reading a book, as well as your rating/review when you’ve finished a book.

Starting today, the Community tab featuring Goodreads discovery and discussion features are available on Kindle for iOS (in the US only), and will be coming to Kindle for Android in a future release.

To learn more about how Kindle helps you read anytime, anywhere visit www.amazon.com/kindleapps.

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Several computer manufacturers are delivering their Windows 8 machines with a preinstalled copy of the Kindle app

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Several computer manufacturers are delivering their Windows 8 machines with a preinstalled copy of the  Kindle app.

Samsung, Dell, HP, Asus, Acer and Lenovo are all offering the Kindle app on all Windows 8 computers

The application is also available via the Windows Store for free for all users who didn’t get it with their new Windows 8 machine.

“The Kindle ecosystem offers customers massive selection and the lowest prices, along with hundreds of thousands of books that are only available in the Kindle Store. We’re excited to make the best content selection, along with all of the benefits of the Kindle ecosystem, available on Windows 8,” said Dorothy Nicholls, vice president, Amazon Kindle. 

“We’re thrilled that leading manufacturers have selected the Kindle ecosystem for pre-load on their new Windows 8 devices.”

The app comes in multiple languages, including English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese, and offers instant access to 1.5 million books. More than 650,000 books can be purchased for around $5 (€3), while 1.2 million titles are sold for $9.99 (€7).

The Kindle downloadable application is already available on a wide array of platforms, including iPad, iPod touch, iPhone, PC, Mac, BlackBerry, Windows Phones and Android. Of course, it’s also included in Amazon’s very own Kindle e-reader and Kindle Fire.

Kindle for Windows 8

Kindle for Windows 8 is the free Kindle reading app for the Windows 8 Consumer Preview operating system. As with Windows 8, you can use either touch gestures if your device is compatible, or a pointing device (such as a mouse) to navigate the app. With Kindle for Windows 8, you can shop the Kindle Store, download and read Kindle books, sync your furthest page read across devices, and customize your reading experience.

Amazon Announces Free "Buy Once, Read Everywhere" Kindle App for webOS TouchPad

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The website of Amazon today announced that HP webOS will be offer a free Kindle application tailored specifically for the HP Touchpad, which allows you to browse 810,000 e-books in the Kindle store. You can subscribe to popular magazines, such as TIME, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, FORTUNE, CELEBRITY, or download films and TV programs.

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Amazon Announces Free "Buy Once, Read Everywhere" Kindle App for webOS TouchPad

Amazon's free "Buy Once, Read Everywhere" Kindle app that lets users read andsync over 810,000 of the most popular books will be available on the new HP TouchPad

Amazon.com today announced that it will launch a free Kindle app for webOS tailored for the new HP TouchPad. Like all Kindle apps, Kindle for webOS will let customers "Buy Once, Read Everywhere" - on Kindle, Kindle 3G, Kindle DX, iPad, iPod touch, iPhone, PC, Mac, BlackBerry, Windows Phone 7, Android-based devices, and this summer, the HP TouchPad. Amazon's Whispersync technology syncs your place across devices, so you can pick up where you left off and never lose your place. For more information about the free Kindle apps, go to www.amazon.com/kindleapps.

"When you buy a Kindle book, you can already read it on Kindle and our free 'Buy Once, Read Everywhere' apps for iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, PC, Mac, BlackBerry, Windows Phone 7, and Android-based devices, so you never have to worry about what to do with your books if you change devices or platforms," said Dorothy Nicholls, Director, Amazon Kindle. "We're very excited to add webOS to this list. As with our other Kindle apps, the webOS app will be free and will incorporate our Whispersync technology so you can seamlessly switch between devices and platforms and never be without your reading."

Kindle for webOS was demonstrated for the first time today at HP's press conference announcing the new HP TouchPad.

"We're working with Amazon to bring HP customers the free Kindle app and, along with it, the largest selection of the most popular books," said Jon Oakes, director, TouchPad Product Marketing, HP. "TouchPad's beautiful, fully featured Kindle app supports the Kindle features users already know and love, and it's one of the first Kindle applications to support the latest Kindle features like Collections."

With Kindle devices and Kindle apps, customers can choose from over 810,000 books in the U.S. Kindle Store - the largest selection of the most popular books that people want to read--including New Releases and 103 of 110 New York Times Bestsellers. Over 670,000 of the books in the Kindle Store are $9.99 or less, including 73 New York Times Bestsellers. With Kindle Worry-Free Archive, books you purchase from the Kindle Store are automatically backed up online in your Kindle library on Amazon where they can be re-downloaded wirelessly for free, anytime.

Customers can learn more about the free Kindle apps at www.amazon.com/kindleapps.

About Amazon.com

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth's Biggest Selection. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth's most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as Books; Movies, Music & Games; Digital Downloads; Electronics & Computers; Home & Garden; Toys, Kids & Baby; Grocery; Apparel, Shoes & Jewelry; Health & Beauty; Sports & Outdoors; and Tools, Auto & Industrial. Amazon Web Services provides Amazon's developer customers with access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon's own back-end technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any type of business. Kindle, Kindle 3G and Kindle DX are the revolutionary portable readers that wirelessly download books, magazines, newspapers, blogs and personal documents to a crisp, high-resolution electronic ink display that looks and reads like real paper. Kindle 3G and Kindle DX utilize the same 3G wireless technology as advanced cell phones, so users never need to hunt for a Wi-Fi hotspot. Kindle is the #1 bestselling product across the millions of items sold on Amazon.

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This announcement contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Actual results may differ significantly from management's expectations. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that include, among others, risks related to competition, management of growth, new products, services and technologies, potential fluctuations in operating results, international expansion, outcomes of legal proceedings and claims, fulfillment center optimization, seasonality, commercial agreements, acquisitions and strategic transactions, foreign exchange rates, system interruption, inventory, government regulation and taxation, payments and fraud. More information about factors that potentially could affect Amazon.com's financial results is included in Amazon.com's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent filings.

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