{"id":569391,"date":"2010-05-18T23:47:15","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T03:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"tag:contentnext.com,2010-05-19:article\/419-amazon-gets-deeper-into-publishing-that-kindle-android-app-is-ready"},"modified":"2010-05-18T23:47:15","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T03:47:15","slug":"amazon-gets-deeper-into-publishing-that-kindle-android-app-is-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/569391","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Gets Deeper Into Publishing; That Kindle Android App Is Ready"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While everyone is watching to see how Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN<\/a>) will counter Apple’s iPad, the online retailer is concentrating on other things. The company has unveiled its second publishing imprint, AmazonCrossing, which will acquire the rights to foreign-language titles and publish the English versions. Secondly, it has finally released a free Kindle for Android app a year after it created one for the iPhone and iPod touch and a month after its iPad app became available.\n<\/p>\n

Amazon’s publishing move follows last year’s launch of AmazonEncore, a program aimed at promoting books from independent,  unknown authors who stand a good chance of attracting a wider audience based on “buzz” from Amazon reviews. Once a book appears to garner a certain cult status, AmazonEncore kicks in with an offer to partner with the offer of marketing support and distribution through the online store as well as independent bookstores via third-party wholesalers.<\/p>\n

The idea behind AmazonCrossing is similar, in that the e-tailer believes it can easily find books outside the U.S. to promote and publish, as an increasing share of Amazon’s revenues come from book sales.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the addition of the Kindle Android app is designed to extend Amazon’s e-book sales to those who might not have a Kindle. All of which also gives Amazon another opportunity to show off its “openness,” as the company stresses that buying a Kindle e-book lets users read it across their PCs and Macs, as well as their Blackberry smartphones. The news also comes a few days after Google (NSDQ: GOOG<\/a>) CEO Eric Schmidt told shareholders<\/a> that the company\u2019s partners are shipping at least 65,000 handsets every day. <\/p>\n

More about AmazonCrossing here<\/a>; details on the Kindle Android app here<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

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While everyone is watching to see how Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) will counter Apple’s iPad, the online retailer is concentrating on other things. The company has unveiled its second publishing imprint, AmazonCrossing, which will acquire the rights to foreign-language titles and publish the English versions. Secondly, it has finally released a free Kindle for Android app […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":681,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/681"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}