Apple Approves Kindle App for iPad [Now Available]

Apple has approved the Kindle App for iPad and it is now available for download via the App Store.

The Kindle app is optimized for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, providing users the ability to read Kindle books using a beautiful, easy-to-use interface. You can discover and read over 450,000 books in the Kindle Store, including the latest best sellers and new releases. You can also read your Kindle books on your Mac, PC, BlackBerry, Kindle, and Kindle DX. Amazon Whispersync automatically syncs your last page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights across all of your devices, so you can pick up right where you left off no matter what device you are reading on.

Shop the Amazon Kindle Store:
• More than 450,000 Kindle books available in the Kindle Store, including 105 of 112 New York Times® Best Sellers
• New York Times® Best Sellers and new releases in the Kindle Store from $9.99, and tens of thousands of the most popular classics for free, including titles like The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Pride and Prejudice, and Treasure Island
• Free book samples—read the first chapter for free before you decide to buy
• Amazon.com customer reviews, personalized recommendations, and editorial reviews

Get the best reading experience available on your iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad:
• Customize background color, font color, and font size to your preference
• Tap on either side of the screen or flick to turn pages
• Read in portrait or landscape mode, with the ability to lock the screen orientation
• Add bookmarks, notes and highlights. To add notes and highlights, simply tap and hold on a word
• Amazon’s Whispersync technology automatically syncs your last page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights across all of your devices, including Kindle, Kindle DX, iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, Mac, PC, and BlackBerry. Customers can read some on one device and pick up right where they left off on another
• Pinch and zoom on images in books


Additional iPad features:
• New beautiful user interface tailored to the size, look, and feel of the iPad
• New Home library view with pinch, zoom and scrolling support
• New page turning animation that replicates the look of turning a page in a book. Customers who prefer a simpler, unadorned reading experience can use the default “Basic Reading Mode” option to turn off animation
• Adjustable screen brightness within the app to help reduce eye strain
• This initial Kindle for iPad release has only been tested on the official iPad simulator provided by Apple

Read your Kindle books anytime, anywhere:
• Kindle books can be read on your iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, Mac, PC, BlackBerry, Kindle, and Kindle DX. You can download our free Kindle app on each device that you own.
• Amazon’s Whispersync technology automatically syncs your last page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights across all of your devices. Read on your Kindle, read some on your iPad or iPhone, and always pick up right where you left off.


What's New In This Version:
Optimized for iPad. This initial Kindle for iPad release has been tested on the official iPad simulator provided by Apple.

You can download Kindle from the App Store for free.


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