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Amazon Expands Kindle To the PC

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:An App for That, but No Answer for This by sopssa · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Very tense, edgy, controlling, and bitchy. Seriously it's rare to find a sweet one who knows how to relax and doesn't bitch up a storm about absolutely nothing.

    You're describing all the women. It's even more bad here with the 18-19 year old girls who always seem to start excepting *all the* people treat them like queens, while they act like bitches. A few years later they realize that and go back (hopefully), but still.

    I always wonder where you can find the girls who actually are sweet. I had one, but she went the same route.

  2. Re:An App for That, but No Answer for This by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Very tense, edgy, controlling, and bitchy. Seriously it's rare to find a sweet one who knows how to relax and doesn't bitch up a storm about absolutely nothing.

    You're describing all the women. It's even more bad here with the 18-19 year old girls who always seem to start excepting *all the* people treat them like queens, while they act like bitches. A few years later they realize that and go back (hopefully), but still.

    I always wonder where you can find the girls who actually are sweet. I had one, but she went the same route.

    The problem is a lot of men are suckers and for some reason are willing to put up with that shit. The same concept that applies to corporations and politics applies here as well: if you reward something, you are likely to get more of it. The day that the bitches become the loneliest women in the world is the day that this will change.