Amazon Kindle App for Android to be Launched this Summer

Amazon have revealed that their Amazon Kindle app for Android will be due this summer.

Similar to the company’s iPhone, iPad and PC/Mac apps, it will allow you to synchronise bookmarks across all copies of the Amazon e-book.

Another feature will include the possibility to browse the Kindle ebook store via the Android app, which will allow downloading titles straight onto the handset.

Along with this, the app will allow the user to adjust the font sizes and support swiped or tapped pages. The cost to download the app will be free of charge and will be available via the Android Market.

Although it appears to be a slow start for the Amazon Kindle app to hit the Android market, I am sure it will be well received amongst Amazon Kindle owners who have an Android phone.

No exact date for the app has been announced yet, just that it is expected for the summer, so if you would like to receive updates on the launch of the app please visit the link here, if not we will keep you posted.

Press Release

Introducing Kindle for Android

Free Android app for reading allows customers to enjoy over 540,000 Kindle books on Android phones; Amazon offers Kindle apps for the iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, Mac, PC, BlackBerry and, soon, Android

SEATTLE, May 18, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that Kindle for Android, the free application that lets readers around the world enjoy Kindle books on their Android phones, is coming this summer. Kindle for Android 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 -- including New York Times Bestsellers and New Releases from $9.99. Like all Kindle apps, Kindle for Android will include Amazon's Whispersync technology, which saves and synchronizes a customer's bookmarks across their Kindle, Kindle DX, iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, PC, Mac, BlackBerry and, soon, Android, so customers always have their reading material with them and never lose their place. Kindle is the most wished for, most gifted and #1 bestselling product on Amazon.com.

"Kindle for Android is the perfect companion application for Kindle and Kindle DX owners, and is also a great way for customers to enjoy over 540,000 books in the Kindle Store even if they don't yet have a Kindle," said Jay Marine, director, Amazon Kindle. "We think customers are going to love the convenience and simplicity of having instant access to a massive selection of books from Amazon on their Droid, Nexus, Incredible and many more Android devices."

Android owners can take advantage of the features that customers love about Kindle and Kindle app experience, including:

Search more than 540,000 books, including 96 of 110 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

Browse by genre or author, and take advantage of all the features that customers enjoy in the Kindle Store, including Amazon.com customer reviews, personalized recommendations and editorial reviews

Access their library of previously purchased Kindle books storedon Amazon's servers for free

Synchronize last page read between their Kindle, Kindle DX, iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, PC, Mac, BlackBerry and, soon, Android

Choose from five different font sizes

Read the beginning of books for free before they decide to buy

Read in portrait or landscape mode, tap on either side of the screen or flick to turn pages

Customers can see a sneak peak and sign up to receive an e-mail when Kindle for Android is available at http://www.amazon.com/kindleforandroid.