Amazon introduces Kindle app for Windows Phone 7

Amazon.com will extend its Kindle ereader application to Microsoft's new Windows Phone 7 operating system, promising a host of new features alongside familiar elements from previous Kindle smartphone apps. Chief among the new bells and whistles: Personalized book recommendations on the Kindle app homescreen and tools for sending book suggestions to friends from any book within a user's library without leaving the app. Like Amazon's other apps, Kindle for Windows Phone 7 embraces the Buy Once, Read Everywhere concept--content purchased on a WP7 smartphone can be read across the Kindle ereader device line as well as apps for PCs, Macs and rival mobile platforms.

Amazon first introduced Kindle in 2007--the ereader device is now its bestselling, most gifted and most wished for product. Its Kindle Store offers access to more than 725,000 ebooks (including new releases and all but three of 111 current New York Times bestsellers), most priced at $9.99 or less. In July 2010, Amazon said it now sells 143 Kindle ebooks for every 100 hardcover books, including hardcover titles for which there is no corresponding Kindle edition.

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