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Kindle for iPhone App Now Available From App Store In More Than 60 Countries |
"We are excited to make the Kindle for iPhone App available to iPhone and iPod touch users in more than 60 countries, allowing them to access the vast selection of the most popular books, all available wirelessly from the Kindle Store," said Ian Freed, vice president, Amazon Kindle. "The Kindle for iPhone App is the perfect companion for customers who own a Kindle or Kindle DX, and a great way for customers around the world to download and read books even if they don't yet have a Kindle." With Kindle for iPhone customers in over 60 countries can:
The Kindle App is available for free from the App Store on iPhone and iPod touch or at http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.itunes.com%2Fappstore%2F&esheet=6119723&lan=en_US&anchor=www.itunes.com%2Fappstore%2F&index=2&md5=40177ce8013b72e355f649ad761c3a31. About Amazon Kindle Kindle is the revolutionary portable reader that wirelessly downloads books, magazines, newspapers and personal documents to a crisp, high-resolution 6-inch electronic ink display that looks and reads like real paper. Kindle utilizes the same 3G wireless technology as advanced cell phones, so users never need to hunt for a Wi-Fi hotspot. Kindle is the most wished for, the most gifted, and the #1 bestselling product across the millions of items sold on Amazon. 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. Examples of the services offered by Amazon Web Services are Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Flexible Payments Service (Amazon FPS), Amazon Mechanical Turk and Amazon CloudFront. Amazon and its affiliates operate websites, including http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com&esheet=6119723&lan=en_US&anchor=www.amazon.com&index=3&md5=2c841ca382637890d0b091367d1b4636, http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk&esheet=6119723&lan=en_US&anchor=www.amazon.co.uk&index=4&md5=bb2b1a1aaee17983221a2972cead6108, http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.de&esheet=6119723&lan=en_US&anchor=www.amazon.de&index=5&md5=13b2803a06eb71e95c974569b9a5e822, http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.jp&esheet=6119723&lan=en_US&anchor=www.amazon.co.jp&index=6&md5=5e3807b9c7b6ed01b2034e1559379f2b, http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.fr&esheet=6119723&lan=en_US&anchor=www.amazon.fr&index=7&md5=e8fcf4ecbf63134d2b9313ef76c34ec1, http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.ca&esheet=6119723&lan=en_US&anchor=www.amazon.ca&index=8&md5=6e04e2bd5ee13e47c0db4fc21226aa89, and http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.cn&esheet=6119723&lan=en_US&anchor=www.amazon.cn&index=9&md5=f1155af73610747d5da0587a6b28f1dd. As used herein, "Amazon.com," "we," "our" and similar terms include Amazon.com, Inc., and its subsidiaries, unless the context indicates otherwise. Forward-Looking Statements 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. Kindle devices are sold through Amazon Digital Services, Inc. SOURCE: Amazon.com, Inc. Amazon.com, Inc. |