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Amazon Releases Kindle for Android no comments
Today Amazon announced the release of the promised 
Kindle for Android app. This is a free app and is available for customers worldwide. From the press release:
Android-powered device owners can now take advantage of the features that customers love about Kindle and the Kindle app experience, including:
- Search and browse more than 620,000 books, including 108 of 111 New York Times Bestsellers, plus tens of thousands of the most popular classics for free directly from their Android device. Bestsellers such as "Backlash" by Aaron Allston, "Big Girl" by Danielle Steel, "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot, and "The Lost Symbol" by Dan Brown, and hundreds of thousands of other popular books are $9.99 or less in the Kindle Store
- Read the first chapter of books for free before they decide to buy
- Access their library of previously purchased Kindle books stored on Amazon’s servers for free
- Synchronize last page read between their Kindle, Kindle DX, iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, PC, Mac, BlackBerry and Android-powered phone
- Customize background color, font color, and font size to help ease eyestrain
- Read in portrait or landscape mode, tap on either side of the screen or flick to turn pages
- Adjust screen brightness from within the app to make reading easier
Several features will be added to Kindle for Android in the near future, including full text search and purchasing of Kindle books from within the app.
The press release makes a point of telling us that the Kindle Store now has over 620,000 books – that’s up 80,000 from May 19 when in another press release Amazon said there were more than 540,000 books. The Kindle Store has been growing by more than 13,000 titles per week during this period – that’s a lot.
You can find the download link for the new Kindle for Android app on the Kindle reading apps page.
