Amazon Expands Kindle To the PC

Posted by timothy on Sunday October 25, 2009 @06:18AM 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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Re:And the race begins by AeneaTech · 2009-10-25 07:24 · Score: 5, Informative

Ehh, the Kindle's AZW format is a modified Mobipocket format of which the DRM can be removed by easier methods than you describe! I even have bought Kindle ebooks without owning a Kindle and read them on my iLiad with the DRM removed ofcourse :D
Do a google search for: mobipocket decoder
So, the major geek cred must go to the person who wrote that I suppose ;)