Update: And after our story last night, Amazon issued a press release about the service this morning. Turns out, Amazon was quietly doing the same thing. But again, others like Amazon and Barnes & Noble remained mum, and changed their apps to remove links to their stores. So if you have your books downloaded to your Kindle, iPad, iPhone, etc, you may be over the limit and will not be able to read them in the cloud.Ī few weeks ago, after Apple began enforcing the new iOS terms, one eBook reader, Kobo, came out and said that they would work on a web app to bypass the restrictions. One thing to note is that the cloud versions (and obviously the downloaded versions) of the Kindle books are still limited to a set number of devices. You can even swipe back and forth to move between pages (though it is a bit slow).

It feels like a native app, but it’s not. And you can easily switch back and forth between the store and your own library. The iPad version is especially good because the store is fully optimized for the device. Something tells me that a browser version for the iPhone is in the works as well. Amazon recommends you check out their free Kindle reader native app in order to read on the iPhone. However, while the iPad is supported, the iPhone currently is not. Optimized for iPad: shop the integrated Kindle Store for TabletsĪgain, that’s something you cannot do within the iOS apps due to the new terms. Bullet point three on the Kindle Cloud Reader page reads: In fact, Amazon plays that up on their site.

This also means that it works on the iPad. This means it works on PCs, Macs, Linux, and even Chromebooks. It looks and works great.Īmazon says that the app officially supports Chrome and Safari. It allows you to read your books from the cloud or to download your books for offline reading thanks to the magic of HTML 5 (or a Chrome browser extension). It’s a web-based version of their Kindle eBook reader app. While Amazon hasn’t said anything about it yet, Kindle Cloud Reader is already live. But at the same time, they were also working on an alternative. But then Apple relaxed the rules a bit, and simply said that Amazon and others couldn’t link to their own stores from their iOS apps.

At first, everyone was sure that many big players would be forced to pull their apps, such as Amazon’s popular Kindle app. Much has been made about Apple’s recent changes to the iOS terms.

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