ASUS today announced that Amazon’s “Kindle for PC” application, which lets readers enjoy Kindle books on their personal computers (PC), will come pre-installed on select ASUS netbooks and notebooks sold at Amazon.com.
This application enables customers to discover and read from over 540,000 books in the Kindle Store the largest selection of the most popular books that people want to read.
Like all Kindle apps, Kindle for PC includes Amazon’s Whispersync technology, which saves and synchronizes a customer’s notes, highlights, bookmarks and last page read across their Kindle, Kindle DX, PC, Mac and other devices so customers always have their reading material with them and never lose their place whether at home or on-the-go.
Like all Kindle apps, Kindle for PC includes Amazon’s Whispersync technology, which saves and synchronizes a customer’s notes, highlights, bookmarks and last page read across their Kindle, Kindle DX, PC, Mac and other devices so customers always have their reading material with them and never lose their place whether at home or on-the-go.
Kindle for PC is available today and comes pre-installed on the following ASUS Eee PCNetbooks with battery life up to 11 hours:
1005PE-MU27- BK
1005PE-MU27-BU
1005PE-MU27-WT
1005PE-MU27-PI
And on the following ASUS ultra thin and light UL Series notebooks featuring over 11 hours of battery life:
UL30A-X5K
UL30VT-X1K
These select ASUS netbooks and notebooks are available at Amazon.com with additional models arriving soon.
What's the point? It's a free download from Amazon an you need an account with them to make it work. I have the app on an ASUS 1005, my main computer and my iPad. I have a kindle as well. I feel I wasted money with the kindle since the apps everywhere even on the phone.