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# Amazon adds video and audio to Kindle reader app
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## Apple's iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch will now offer Kindle Reader apps with
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sound and video.
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![Amazon Kindle review][1]
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Amazon's Kindle reader doesn't do video or audio but the mobile app versions
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soon will.
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By Matt Warman, Consumer Technology Editor 10:33AM BST 28 Jun 2010
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[Comments][2]
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**[Amazon][3]** has introduced audio and video into its eReading Kindle Apps
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for **[Apple][4]**'s iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. The new features, which
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currently are only available via Amazon.com, are not however compatible with
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Amazon's own device, the Kindle.
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The first books to receive special editions with new content include travel
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guides or books about bird song. London by Rick Steves, for instance, will
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have a walking guide to the city.
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Dorothy Nicholls, Amazon's director of kindle, said "We are excited to add
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this functionality to Kindle for iPad and Kindle for iPhone and iPod touch.
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Readers will already find some Kindle Editions with audio/video clips in the
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Kindle Store today. This is just the beginning - we look forward to seeing
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what authors and publishers create for Kindle customers using the new
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functionality of the Kindle apps."
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The move indicates that Amazon is not prepared to concede ground to Apple's
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iBooks software in the burgeoning digital books market, but it does suggest
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that the company sees multifunction devices such as the iPad as a real part of
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the future of publishing. Previous suggestions from analysts and businesses
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had indicated that consumers would not want to read for long periods on a
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traditional backlit screen.
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Amazon also announced that Kindle for iPhone is now **[optimised for iPhone
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4's high-resolution retina display][5]**.
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* [Amazon cuts price of Kindle][6]
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22 Jun 2010
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* [Amazon's new Kindle to challenge iPad][7]
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### [Amazon Kindle 3 ebook reader review][16]
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