UPDATED 12:40 EST / DECEMBER 17 2010

Amazon Swipes at Apple with Periodicals on Kindle for Android

Finally,  Amazon expands its Kindle App offerings to newspapers and magazines such as The New York Times, Newsweek, The Atlantic and many more, bringing it across virtually all mobile devices and platforms. But for starters, the app is specifically for Kindle for Android. It will allow users to buy, read and sync over 100 Kindle newspapers and magazines. May it be single issue or several periodical subscriptions, users can enjoy a full color reading experience optimized for the touch interface of Android-powered devices and updates will be automatically delivered as well.

“We want to give customers the freedom and flexibility to buy their newspapers and magazines once, and read them everywhere across the devices and platforms they chose—just like they do with Kindle books today,” said Russ Grandinetti, Vice President, Amazon Kindle. “Kindle for Android is our fastest-growing application, and we’re excited to launch over 100 newspapers and magazines for our Android customers.”

It also features the ability to purchase and download over 750,000 Kindle books and periodicals without leaving the application, as well as share reading progress through social networks with Google’s built-in Share Functionality. You can also zoom in graphics. Kindle is the first e-book app to offer periodicals on the Android platform and you can download them off the Android Market. Updates of this app is automatic.

For more information about Kindle for Android, see here .

In  addition, Amazon also has several other objectives around the Kindle.  It launched ActiveBooks with the goal of making Kindle an interactive e-reader.  It is developed by Puzzazz and is priced $3.99 off Kindle Store.  Several updates of the Kindle for the Web was also made in response to Google’s e-Bookstore strategy.  This new version is said to be web-based speculated to get on the market early January 2011. Amazon is also holding on from its fierce competition with Apple and Google’s e-Bookstore. Google boasts some 3 million titles with a Web Reader than comes along with it.

Magazines are looking for new interest with digital distribution, including power publisher Conde Nast. The company is bringing out a wide array of magazines to their digital publishing. Moreover, methods for digital distribution are leveraging the widening array of connected devices – some magazines are already avail. HP for example recently launched Photosmart eStation-All-in-One which allows you to browse your Facebook and emails because of an attached tablet called Zeen. It’s not just your ordinary printer.


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