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Amazon, Microsoft Team Up for Kindle on PC

Gregory T. Huang 10/22/09

Seattle-based Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced today a new “Kindle for PC” application that will let people read Kindle electronic books on Windows personal computers. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) demoed the free app at its Windows 7 release event in New York. It will be available worldwide next month.

Gregory T. Huang is the Editor of Xconomy Seattle. You can e-mail him at gthuang@xconomy.com or call 206-624-2249.


Reader Comments

  • Dave Lukas
    10/22/09 5:25 pm

    What would be really sweet is if you could view ANY text on a Kindle screen. So much easier on your eyes when reading long documents, etc.

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