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Amazon Kindle for the Web Improves E-Reading Previews

by Terrence O'Brien on September 28, 2010 at 10:11 AM

Kindle for the Web
Amazon already has Kindle apps on the three biggest smartphone platforms and the two most popular consumer OSes, so what's left for it to conquer? (Besides Linux that is.) The Web, of course, and Amazon has staked its claim on that next frontier with the debut of Kindle for the Web. Kindle for the Web is not an online, feature competitive e-reader, though. Instead, it is used to display samples of books from the Amazon site. Customers can purchase full copies from within Kindle for the Web, or send the previews to others via e-mail, Facebook or Twitter. More importantly for Amazon and its associates, though, is the ability to embed the Kindle Web app in any page that allows embeddable media. That means bloggers and others can insert book previews in their posts, and collect any referral fees.

We've embedded a sample below. You'll find that a few things are customizable, such as color scheme and text size, but Kindle for the Web is mostly a bare-bones affair. Get your own hands-on after the break.

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