Amazon decided from the beginning not to give Apple a cut of Kindle books, and so you have a Kindle app that is half-functional. Why is it like this? Apple demands a 30% cut of all digital books and music sales from apps on its devices. Want to buy a Kindle book from the app? You will have to leave the app, open your browser, log in to Amazon, make your purchase, deliver the books to your iOS app, then go back to the app. The experience that best describes Kindle for iOS is “highly inconvenient.” With Kindle for iOS you can only read books. Here is how you can enjoy Kindle’s extensive selection with the technology you probably have in front of you right now Kindle App for iPhones and iPads Now, there are multiple ways you can enjoy Kindle books, either on a PC or on the go, without physically having a Kindle device.

Back in 2007, you could only read Kindle books on that 1 st gen device with its odd angular design and strange scroll wheel. Coming up on its 17th birthday, the 1 st generation Kindle began a transformation for readers around the world.

Kindle cloud reader app