NEW YORK - You may not have the latest $359 Kindle electronic book reader from Amazon.com, but if you own an iPhone or iPod Touch, a new application will let you access much of the same content on your Apple device.
In a bid to increase its slice of the e-book market, the Seattle-based online retailer rolled out a free program Wednesday that brings several of the Kindle's functions to the iPod and iPhone's smaller screen.
The program, which can be downloaded from Apple's online application store, lets iPhone and iPod Touch users read the same electronic books that Kindle owners can buy on Amazon.com. As with the Kindle, the iPhone app lets users change the text size on the screen, and add bookmarks, notes and highlights.
[From Yahoo! News - Amazon unveils Kindle Application for iPhone by AP: Yahoo! Tech ]
It turns out the iPhone screen is surprisingly readable. Right now I'm reading a novel by Alan Furst, "The Foreign Correspondent" - a really good WWII-era spy story published by Random House you can get free here at eReader (and elsewhere), by the way. How cool is that?
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