Amazon comes with Kindle beta for Mac
Amazon first gave us the electronic reader for reading e-books. Next came applications for Windows, BlackBerry and iPhone. The latest offering by Amazon is the e-book reading software for Mac OS X.
The software is free and it lets you read electronic books that you have purchased from Amazon’s Kindle store which currently has 450,000 books on sale. Through the software, you can buy new books or read the ones that you have already bought. You can also view highlights and notes but cannot make new one.
Beta version means that the manufacturer’s of the software are currently working on the application and they haven’t completed the work. There are rumors floating around that Amazon is pushing ebook publishers to sign contracts of 3 years. This won’t let publishers to provide the books at a better price to Apple or other companies.
Amazon says that the next version will let you make notes and add full text search. You need Mac OS X 10.5 or later for this. Amazon is also working on such a application on Apple’s iPad even though the device does have its own such application from Apple. You can download this application directly from company’s Website.
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sam (1)
Softwares for Mac is really difficult to find. This will be really great to use.
People having Mac are very less in this world and its softwares are also rarely found. It is obvious that people using Mac will surely go for this software.
Mac itself is complicated to use. What will one understand its softwares.
This software is exclusively made for latest Apple products and I’m sure its main target is Apple Ipad.
This is the Beta version, it will get old enough until the full version is launched.
After its full version is launched, it will have a great collection of books to read.
There has to be agreat collection. After all it is being researched for Apple and everyone knows the status of Apple.