Kindle for PC

Amazon Releases Free "Kindle for PC" Application

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 22, 2009 - 12:09pm.
Seattle - Amazon.com (NASD: AMZN) on Thursday released a new, free software application that will allow users to read books purchased from its Kindle Store on a PC. The Kindle Store offers over 360,000 titles for $9.99 or less. The Kindle for PC application includes Amazon's Whispersync feature, which will save and sync bookmarks in e-books across devices, including the Kindle, iPhone and now PC. Separately, the company knocked $20 off the price of the international version of its Kindle 2 e-book reader, which will now sell for $259 -- the same price tag sported by the version sold in the U.S.