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Amazon Expands Kindle To the PC

Posted by timothy on from the begun-this-price-war-has dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Windows users will be able to use a new Kindle Books application to purchase, download and read e-book titles from Amazon's Kindle Store service. The PC application will be offered as a free download and will support Windows 7, Vista and XP systems. The news comes as Amazon is suddenly finding itself with a fresh crop of competitors in the e-book reader market. Earlier this week hardware vendor Spring Design entered the market with its Alex device, while publisher/retailer Barnes and Noble presented an even more serious challenge to Kindle when it unveiled its Nook reader device." Worth noting, if you're in the market for any such device: the base Kindle's price is now down to $259.

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  1. Re:Why Windows XP? by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: 1, Funny

    As a MacOS and Linux user, I feel really left out put off by this move, why support only Vista and XP...?

    If you're a Mac user then you're supposed to already be using the free Kindle reader on your iPhone/iTouch.

    What??? You don't have one of those??? Don't you know that you are supposed to own at least one of every toy that Steve Jobs sells. Just what kind of Mac user are you anyway???

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  2. Re:Why Windows XP? by swanzilla · · Score: 2, Funny

    What??? You don't have one of those??? Don't you know that you are supposed to own at least one of every toy* that Steve Jobs sells. Just what kind of Mac user are you anyway???

    * Apple TV excluded.

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  3. Re:MMmmmm... my head will explode. by couchslug · · Score: 2, Funny

    "You'll spend $12 to go see a movie in a sticky theater and obnoxious people. "

    I don't.
    I haven't been to a movie in a theater since the 1980s and don't miss sharing space with a waterfall of loud, annoying retards. That shit is why home entertainment systems were invented.

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  4. Re:MMmmmm... my head will explode. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Such an appropriate nickname, too.