Comments on: Still no Kindle App up here http://isource.com/2009/03/28/still-no-kindle-app-up-here/ #1 Source for iPad, iPhone, iPod, Mac and AppleTV Thu, 14 Oct 2010 22:16:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.6 By: PatrickJ http://isource.com/2009/03/28/still-no-kindle-app-up-here/#comment-7328 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:57:45 +0000 http://isource.com/iphone-software/still-no-kindle-app-up-here/%20#comment-7328 stannyc – I like Stanza a lot as well. Love the amount of free content (Gutenberg stuff etc) that it offers. Have got both Stanza and Kindle on my phone at the moment …

]]> By: patrickj http://isource.com/2009/03/28/still-no-kindle-app-up-here/#comment-7330 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:57:22 +0000 http://isource.com/iphone-software/still-no-kindle-app-up-here/%20#comment-7330 stannyc – I like Stanza a lot as well. Love the amount of free content (Gutenberg stuff etc) that it offers. Have got both Stanza and Kindle on my phone at the moment …

]]> By: patrickj http://isource.com/2009/03/28/still-no-kindle-app-up-here/#comment-7329 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:55:33 +0000 http://isource.com/iphone-software/still-no-kindle-app-up-here/%20#comment-7329 stannyc – I like Stanza a lot as well. Love the amount of free content (Gutenberg stuff etc) that it offers. Have got both Stanza and Kindle on my phone at the moment …

]]> By: stannyc http://isource.com/2009/03/28/still-no-kindle-app-up-here/#comment-7300 Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:18:54 +0000 http://isource.com/iphone-software/still-no-kindle-app-up-here/%20#comment-7300 I loaded up the Kindle, but it's really no better than Stanza (my favorite) or the other iPhone reading apps. I can use Stanza to transfer almost any kind of text (PDF, epub, pdf, etc.) to my iPhone, but you can only transfer Kindle stuff to a Kindle reader.

It's interesting that Apple still gets beaten up for using DRM on iTunes, but nobody seems to criticize Amazon for locking up its Kindle books. This is a much more intrusive form of DRM, I think, since you can't read Kindle books on ANYTHING but a Kindle (there's not even a reader you can install on the Mac, AFAIK.

Ah, well. I read books all the time on my Stanza, and when Apple comes out with its netbook, well, I'm thinkin' about it.

Stan

]]> By: Ragart http://isource.com/2009/03/28/still-no-kindle-app-up-here/#comment-7296 Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:21:31 +0000 http://isource.com/iphone-software/still-no-kindle-app-up-here/%20#comment-7296 I might have done the US account thing, too, if it weren't for all the apps I already own on my Canadian account. I also read the journal of this guy who tried getting a US acct from the Netherlands and then messed up all of his updates for every app (although I guess updates are messed up right now anyway — but his was worse)

thanks for the heads-up though! glad it's working for you. Better Canadian app store support would be better though! *HINT HINT APPLE*

]]> By: kittie2171 http://isource.com/2009/03/28/still-no-kindle-app-up-here/#comment-7295 Sun, 29 Mar 2009 14:48:02 +0000 http://isource.com/iphone-software/still-no-kindle-app-up-here/%20#comment-7295 I'm in Canada. I got a US account with a US$ visa from TDCanadaTrust. I just use an address from a friend in the US. Also you can get a US account with a US gift certificate.

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