That makes reading these e-books outside the Kindle bubble nearly impossible.

These digital books use Amazon’s proprietary AZW file format, even though Kindle tablets also support MOBI files. Fitbit Versa 3įor Digital Rights Management (DRM) reasons, all Kindle e-books are locked to Kindle hardware. Others include the Financial Times and another e-reading company, Kobo. Other features include digital bookmarking synced across devices, so users can start reading wherever they previously stopped.Īmazon’s move is part of a trend of companies sidestepping Apple’s new rules with HTML5 apps. Users can customize the page layout and view notes and highlights that they’ve made on a Kindle device or in other Kindle apps. The iPad maker offers its own iBook store, in competition with Kindle. Amazon is widely believed to be working on its own Android-based tablet device to compete with the iPad.Īmong other features, Kindle Cloud Reader lets people download books for reading in the browser even when they’re offline. The app is a sign of the rising competition between Amazon and Apple. Future versions will be available for Internet Explorer, Firefox, BlackBerry Playbook and other browsers. Kindle Cloud Reader is available at It works initially with Safari on iPad, Mac and PC and on Google’s Chrome browser. A button inside the app links to the Kindle Store - a feature that Amazon and other companies have removed recently from their native iOS apps to comply with new conditions imposed by Apple on the sale of subscriptions and other digital items from inside those apps.

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