Amazon Says Kindle for Mac “Coming Soon”
With so many ebook readers hitting retail shelves and web stores these days, it’s no surprise that Amazon is moving Kindle content to other devices. November saw Kindle for PC, and now Amazon says that Kindle for Mac is “coming soon.” I suppose coming soon means different things to different people, but I’d like to think that Amazon means by the time CES rolls around in a few weeks. I was nosing around the Kindle site last night when I caught the brief Kindle for Mac blog post from a few days back:
“Soon, you’ll be able to read Kindle books on your Mac. Our free application for your Mac is coming — no Kindle required. Even when you don’t have your Kindle with you, you can access your Kindle books, and Whispersync automatically synchronizes your last page read and annotations between devices. Stay tuned!”
It was known that a Kindle client for Mac OS X is in the works — just after Kindle for PC arrived, Amazon stated that it was developing a Mac verison. Also on the Kindle site is an icon showing Kindle for BlackBerry, with the same “coming soon” description, although there’s no blog post or other shout-out to Research In Motion’s handset platform. The more places you can read the same content, the more desirable the platform is for me. That’s why I started out with eReader — long before it was eReader, in fact — I could read my books on computers, PDAs and phones. I made the jump to Kindle once Amazon supported the iPhone, so software actually dictated a hardware purchase for me in that case.
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What about Kindle for Android?
That’s what I’m looking/hoping/waiting for.
I second that…. give me Kindle for Android and I will actually buy a Kindle. If B&N releases their Android reader first, then it will be a Nook for me.
B&N already released their Android software. You get it from their subsidiary site ereader.com …
For me, I’ll be buying an Entourage eDGe (with their e-reader software, and access to their e-books store). And then loading the B&N ereader.com software on it, to have access to their stuff. So, if Amazon wants me to buy their e-books, they’d better make something I can use on the eDGe as well.
But, either way, I wont be buying a Kindle, nor a Nook (nor an Alex, for that matter).
Just to amend this: My current front-runner is now the Notion Ink Adam. I’m just pointing that out, because it would be a shame/annoying if Amazon made Android software in a way that only works around ONE Android device (like the eDGe, where there are separate screens for e-paper and LCD). Hopefully, if they do an Android app, it’d work equally well on the Adam, the eDGe, the Archos IT, the ICD tablets (Vega, Ultra, and a third, un-named, one), and any others that are out, or coming out.
Kindle for Android… LOL
I guess when Amazon says “Coming soon” they mean “We’re getting started on it”.
LOL. Ya. It’s kind of ridiculous.