Amazon has launched their free app that makes all books available Kindle readable on the iPhone/iPod touch as well. Officially the company still sees mobile as suited to short reading on the go. VP in charge of Kindle Ian Freed calls it “a great companion device for customers who are caught without their Kindle” and echoes ceo Jeff Bezos’s line from Charlie Rose that iPod reading is ideally suited towards when you are “in line at the grocery store.” But they hope it’s such a mediocre companion that it persuades more people to spend $359 for a Kindle. To that […]
