Amazon, Microsoft Team Up for Kindle on PC

Gregory T. Huang

October 22nd, 2009

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 Xconomy's Editor in chief. E-mail him at gthuang [at] xconomy.com. Follow @gthuang

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One response to “Amazon, Microsoft Team Up for Kindle on PC”

  1. Dave Lukas says:
    October 22, 2009 at 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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