iPad

Amazon, the leading online books merchant is trailing behind Barnes&Noble on this one. Amazon will be releasing a Kindle app for iPad that will let you read your precious digital books and keep progress and notes in sync. Here is Amazon’s tag line:

Tablet computers, including the iPad, are coming and with our free app you’ll be able to read more than 450,000* Kindle books. Like all Kindle apps, Kindle for tablet computers will include Whispersync technology, which automatically synchronizes y9our last page read, bookmarks, notes and highlights across your Kindle and Kindle compatible devices including PC, Mac, iPhone and BlackBerry. *If you are a non-U.S. customer, book availability may vary.

See the announcement on Amazon’s Kindle page here!

Interesting…

Some of the iPad accessories initialy announced by Apple will not be imediately avaliable on 4/3 when the first unit ship. The iPad USB Power adapter, keyboard dock and camera connection kit are not currently available for purchase via apple.com – I can hardly see this becoming a decision factor for any potential buyer – yet, some folks may be disapointed for a month or two… On the other hand check out Amazon store as it currently offers a inexpensive (yet generic) iPad USB charger for less than ten bucks… Click on the similar products link and you’ll be able to see a slew of relating products, some of the accessories are even already refurbished…

This kind of brings me to another point here – it’s amazing how many Amazon sellers are already offering iPad related accessories and jockeying for a slice of a huge Amazon iPad accessories pie that is to be sliced pretty soon… Folks are already selling bags, screen protectors, sleeves, cables, chargers, and god knows what – even though not a single iPad unit has been shipped (what’s even more interesting is that most of the items are on sale with discounts of over 30% – I certainly did not expect such an early discounted and even refurbished product offering). Yet – such a quick accessory offering growth (even though discounted) is, in my eyes, an early indication that the markeplace has awarded it’s approval and acceptance to the upcoming device.

It’s a late night post – gotta appreciate the displayed boundless creativity here. Anyhow, Amazon has this lovely waterproof iPad bag on sale (25% discount) – so if you plan going snorkeling with your new shiny iPad hit the Amazon store here.