The only clear advantage to the Web app, in fact, seems to be the easy access to Amazon’s store. If anything, the experience is closer to the desktop Kindle app than the iPad app. Even the page-turning is little bit uglier: Readers merely tap to change screens instead of “swiping” back-and-forth. And there’s no highlighting or note-taking enabled-though you can see the highlights and notes you’ve made using Amazon’s other Kindle apps (or actual hardware Kindles). The same goes for the ability to share book quotes via Facebook and Twitter. For one thing, there’s no access to periodicals: If you recently started subscribing to newspapers or magazines through Amazon, you’ll need to stick with the iPad app. The Web app comes with a number of downsides it simply doesn’t offer as alluring a reading experience as the official iPad app. The Web app claims 50MB of storage space on your iPad, which in turn gives you the ability to store cloud-based books for offline reading. (An iPhone version isn’t available yet.) When you log into your Amazon account from within the app for the first time, you’re shown your entire library of ebooks-and prompted to add the page to your iPad’s home screen. And the Financial Times showed a new way forward in June by offering one of the first subscription-based iPad-optimized websites.Īmazon is following the Financial Times model with the Kindle Cloud Reader while its new site is also compatible with the Chrome and Safari desktop browsers, the site is clearly aimed at iPad Safari users. Cupertino later relaxed its requirements a bit, but still mandated that Amazon and other ebook app vendors scrub their apps of direct links to their online stores. Amazon’s launch of the iPad-optimized Web service is the latest blow in a battle that has been brewing since February, when Apple announced it would take a 30 percent cut of sales made through in-app purchases of books, periodicals, music, and movies-and that sellers couldn’t use their websites to offer better deals than available through the apps.
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