Online books retailer Amazon.com, Inc., US, has introduced a new Kindle app tailored for Windows 8. Customers around the world can now reportedly download this free application and use Amazon’s selection of over 1.5 million books at the best prices, including over 200,000 exclusive titles. Kindle books are claimed to be “Buy Once, Read Everywhere” – these can be read on any Kindle e-reader or Kindle Fire, as well as on iPad, iPod touch, iPhone, PC, Mac, BlackBerry, Windows Phone, Android phones and tablets, in web browsers with Kindle Cloud Reader and on Windows 8 devices.
The new Kindle app offers various features including Whispersync technology which automatically syncs a customer’s last page read, bookmarks, notes and highlights across all of their Kindles and Kindle apps. The app is available worldwide in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. Kindle for Windows 8 has instant access to over 1.5 million books at the best prices, including over 200,000 exclusive titles. Over 650,000 books are priced at $4.99 or less; over 1.2 million are $9.99 or less.
Using the new features of Windows 8, the Kindle app enables customers to pin their books to the Start screen for instant access to their favourite titles and search their library and Kindle store with the ‘Search charm’. Customers can also use the Share charm to easily share favourite passages and recommended books to friends and other apps without leaving the Kindle environment.
Customers can learn more about Kindle for Windows 8 at http://www.amazon.com/kindleforwindows8 and can download the free app from the Windows Store.
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