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App Stores everywhere: Kindle App store coming now!

 

Jim Wilson/The New York Times

Amazon will roll out an updated Kindle. Publishers and readers are likely to choose between it and an Apple tablet computer.

via nytimes.com

We like to see the model of App store, this new way of consuming bites of the web and content, growing within nearly every platform. And the Kindle is a platform. Coming soon near you, for books, games and utilities i guess. Amazon/Kindle App store

 

In its announcement Thursday, Amazon will say that it is letting programmers create what it calls active content — similar to applications — for the Kindle and keep 70 percent of the revenue from each sale after paying for wireless delivery costs.

Amazon will release a set of programming guidelines that other companies — including publishers of books and periodicals — can use to create and sell applications for the Kindle.

hey Amazon, how about http://getAp.ps/Kindle URL instead?

Great News, the great Kindle app is now available in more than 60 country, not just the USA.

So i rushed to download it. But..

Bad news the official Amazon PR mention a marathon-long URL that leads nowhere, probably because their PR department or agency wanted to add a tracker the iTunes URL. In addition it is unreadable (and unsharable)

So for yourself here

 

This is why we created the GetAp.ps service, a smart short link for iTunes apps. So you don't have to use unfriendly URL but still able to enjoy the analytics juice.

Amazon, do your users a favor. Please use getAp.ps/Kindle

Oh and did we mention that 1 URL handles all local apps stores?

Most app developers, specially brands, should realize that the very first contact with an App is the link on which they click before they download the app.

Brands should start their work with those links.