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Dec 14

Kindle for iPhone Now Available Internationally

Posted in: e-books, iPhone, kindle, Media Players, Today's Chili

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Amazon’s Kindle for iPhone application is now available internationally, in “over 60 countries”. The catch is that it it still only localized in English.

When the Kindle e-reader was launched internationally back in October, one of the many aspects that Amazon left out in the rush to make some Christmas money was the iPhone application which allows Kindle owners to continue reading on their iPhones. We posted a workaround to get the app from outside the US, but as it involved creating a US account at the iTunes Store it was far from ideal. Now Amazon has fixed things with the long-awaited international launch of Kindle for iPhone.

Amazon doesn’t show much love for its overseas customers (shipping the Kindle with a US power-cord adapter, for example), but we suspect that Amazon’s xenophobia isn’t the only aspect to this delay. Its more likely that Apple’s long-winded (read “broken”) App Store approval process was a major culprit. The release notes for this version show nothing more than the addition of worldwide support. Given that the US version works fine in Europe with a Spanish Kindle account, we doubt that Amazon did much ore than re-submit the app to Apple.

Still, it’s here at last. Maybe now Amazon can concentrate on adding some non-English-language books to the Kindle store.

Kindle for iPhone [iTunes]

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