Amazon does not stand by and watch the arrival of Google eBooks in the digital book market and responds with Kindle for the web, to read ebooks via browser.
Kindle for the web It is a web application of Amazon which allows you to read ebooks from any browser, even if you don't have a Kindle, the famous ebook reader, the flagship of the Amazon catalog. In reality, the application - which went a bit unnoticed by most - has been available for a few weeks now, but the arrival on the market of Google eBooks has shaken up the waters of the sector, exposing the moves that can slow the rise of Google on the e-publishing market.
What changes in fact? Each Amazon ebooks It can now obviously be read on Kindle but also on BlackBerry, iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Mac or PC of any type.
If Amazon had already allowed this since September but only for the first chapter of the ebooks, now the texts can be browsed in their entirety, even without downloading.
This new feature is currently available in the United States in beta version, pending the release of the same system in Europe and therefore also in Italy.
Kindle for the web It is not exactly comparable to the cloud offered by Google eBooks but it is very close: the motto of "Every site can now be a library“Amazon is certainly not standing by and watching the web that Google is weaving and, indeed, is responding firmly by making it possible for writers, publishers and bloggers to offer books to their readers through affiliation.
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