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"It's official: Kindle is coming to an Android phone near you sometime this summer.\nThe Kindle app is already available on the iPhone, iPad and BlackBerry, and now Android will join the mobile lineup in the next few months.  The free app comes with all of the features you'd expect: access to Amazon's half a million e-books, automatic syncing of bookmarks, notes and highlights, and the ability to read books in portrait or landscape mode.\nWhile Kindle for Android seems very similar to its iPhone and iPad counterparts, it does come with an additional feature \u2014 the ability to buy books through the app itself. iPhone and iPad users currently have to buy Kindle books via the Safari mobile web browser because Amazon doesn't want to give up 30% of its book sales to its new e-book rival.\nThere still aren't a lot of details about Kindle for Android, but Amazon has created a landing page where Android owners can sign up for updates on the app.  Oh, and for those with older Android phones, there's good news: Kindle for Android works on phones running Android 1.6 or better.\nWith Apple and other book retailers challenging Amazon's dominance of the e-book market, the world's largest online retailer is responding by spreading its virtual library onto as many platforms as possible.  It's all part of a chess game between Apple and Amazon.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor more mobile coverage, follow Mashable Mobile on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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