http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/amazon-kindle-for-pc-available-soonish/ Engadget Comments for Amazon Kindle for PC available 'soonish' http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/amazon-kindle-for-pc-available-soonish/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/amazon-kindle-for-pc-available-soonish/Oct 22nd 2009 7:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/amazon-kindle-for-pc-available-soonish/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/amazon-kindle-for-pc-available-soonish/Oct 23rd 2009 5:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/amazon-kindle-for-pc-available-soonish/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/amazon-kindle-for-pc-available-soonish/Oct 22nd 2009 7:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/amazon-kindle-for-pc-available-soonish/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/amazon-kindle-for-pc-available-soonish/
I use my Kindle for a lot of school work and it will be one less gadget that I have to haul to class, just to have reference materials available.

This works for me, even at work I could grab a few minutes of Dan Brown et al here and there without being obvious about it.]]>Oct 22nd 2009 7:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/amazon-kindle-for-pc-available-soonish/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/amazon-kindle-for-pc-available-soonish/Oct 24th 2009 5:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/amazon-kindle-for-pc-available-soonish/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/amazon-kindle-for-pc-available-soonish/Oct 22nd 2009 8:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/amazon-kindle-for-pc-available-soonish/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/amazon-kindle-for-pc-available-soonish/Oct 22nd 2009 8:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/amazon-kindle-for-pc-available-soonish/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/amazon-kindle-for-pc-available-soonish/Oct 22nd 2009 9:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/amazon-kindle-for-pc-available-soonish/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/amazon-kindle-for-pc-available-soonish/Oct 27th 2009 12:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/amazon-kindle-for-pc-available-soonish/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/amazon-kindle-for-pc-available-soonish/Hopefully there will be an Android version soon... and maybe Maemo and Ubuntu as well.]]>Oct 22nd 2009 8:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/amazon-kindle-for-pc-available-soonish/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/amazon-kindle-for-pc-available-soonish/Oct 22nd 2009 8:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/amazon-kindle-for-pc-available-soonish/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/amazon-kindle-for-pc-available-soonish/
Amazon is about selling books and ebooks. The Kindle is just one way that Amazon intends those books to be consumed. Obviously they have been working on apps for a while now if they are prepared to release this soon.
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On the plus side it could read Kindle books along with practically every other ebook format in existence.]]>Oct 22nd 2009 10:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/amazon-kindle-for-pc-available-soonish/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/amazon-kindle-for-pc-available-soonish/Oct 22nd 2009 8:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/amazon-kindle-for-pc-available-soonish/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/amazon-kindle-for-pc-available-soonish/
My bad, forgot how useful that is for people who own 6 Kindles (or iPhones).]]>Oct 22nd 2009 9:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/amazon-kindle-for-pc-available-soonish/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/amazon-kindle-for-pc-available-soonish/Oct 23rd 2009 2:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/amazon-kindle-for-pc-available-soonish/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/amazon-kindle-for-pc-available-soonish/Oct 23rd 2009 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/amazon-kindle-for-pc-available-soonish/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/amazon-kindle-for-pc-available-soonish/Oct 22nd 2009 9:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/amazon-kindle-for-pc-available-soonish/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/amazon-kindle-for-pc-available-soonish/Oct 22nd 2009 9:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/amazon-kindle-for-pc-available-soonish/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/amazon-kindle-for-pc-available-soonish/Oct 22nd 2009 10:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/amazon-kindle-for-pc-available-soonish/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/amazon-kindle-for-pc-available-soonish/
Well it's not nearly as convenient! For each book you get from BN you have to unlock it on the iphone by entering your entire credit card number. What a pain, and the book was free anyway.

So I must hand it to amazon and probably using the pc reader will be quite good. I do still hate the ebook pricing for what you get (same price as paperback, can't give the book to someone else like a physical). But it looks like bn will finally push some competition now.]]>Oct 22nd 2009 10:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/amazon-kindle-for-pc-available-soonish/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/amazon-kindle-for-pc-available-soonish/
As to the pricing, it's all up to the publishers. The $10 for a new (hardcover) book and $6 for an older (paperback) title pricing would make a nice standard... but some publishers feel the need to try and squeeze out a few extra bucks. In any case, it's all better than the pre-Kindle e-book pricing, where pretty much every title cost more than a hardback copy.

I'm still confused as to why publishers think the Kindle robot voice reader has to be disabled on their titles... do they think audiobook sales will be affected?]]>Oct 22nd 2009 10:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/amazon-kindle-for-pc-available-soonish/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/amazon-kindle-for-pc-available-soonish/Oct 22nd 2009 10:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/amazon-kindle-for-pc-available-soonish/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/amazon-kindle-for-pc-available-soonish/
I'm betting the Amazon percentage per book is much greater than songs for Apple.]]>Oct 23rd 2009 12:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/amazon-kindle-for-pc-available-soonish/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/amazon-kindle-for-pc-available-soonish/
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Good idea. Sign me up!]]>Oct 24th 2009 12:59PM