Amazon has recently incorporated support for Mozilla Firefox with their HTMl5 online Cloud Reader application. The new app developed by the Seattle based company gives you the chance to buy and read books directly on your web browser. They developed this technology a few months ago because of the drama that ensued when they removed the ability to buy books via their iOS app.
“Customer response to Kindle Cloud Reader has been overwhelmingly positive,” said Dorothy Nicholls, Director, Amazon Kindle. “Instant access to your books in the browser, combined with a beautifully designed and feature rich HTML5 application experience, has made Kindle Cloud Reader the best launch we’ve ever had for a Kindle app. We’re excited to further extend our ‘Buy Once, Read Everywhere’ mission and give Mozilla Firefox users access to the largest selection of the most popular books, all without leaving their web browser.”
The Kindle Cloud Reader gives you the ability to buy and read books online or offline with no installation required. It utilizes HTML5, which is soon to be the internet standard for delivering content. Kindle Cloud Reader automatically synchronizes your Kindle library, as well as your last page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights for all of your Kindle books, no matter how you choose to read them. To make it easy and seamless to discover new books, Kindle Cloud Reader includes an integrated, touch optimized store, allowing customers one click access to a vast selection of books. Microsoft will be launching their Windows 8 operating system soon and its IE10 browser will not support plugins and will rely exclusively on HTML5 to power the next generation of online web content.
Firefox is the latest browser to gain full support for the Kindle Cloud Reader and joins Safari and Chrome. The Reader app was designed for the iPad touch interface system as well and optimizes the experience for smaller screen devices.
Recently, Mozilla announced support for Android and Mobile versions of its popular web browser and the development teams are hard at work importing touch friendly versions of it. This will change the browser game for Android and give competition to Dolphin HD, Opera, and the default WebKit shipped in most devices.
[showhide type=’pressrelease’] SEATTLE – Nov 8, 2011 – (NASDAQ: AMZN) – Today, Amazon announced that Kindle Cloud Reader, the HTML5-based web app that lets customers read their Kindle books in their web browser, is now available for Mozilla Firefox so the hundreds of millions of Firefox users can start reading their Kindle books instantly, simply by opening their web browser. To start reading go to http://read.amazon.com using Chrome, Safari on iPad, Safari on desktop and now Mozilla Firefox.
“Customer response to Kindle Cloud Reader has been overwhelmingly positive,” said Dorothy Nicholls, Director, Amazon Kindle. “Instant access to your books in the browser, combined with a beautifully designed and feature rich HTML5 application experience, has made Kindle Cloud Reader the best launch we’ve ever had for a Kindle app. We’re excited to further extend our ‘Buy Once, Read Everywhere’ mission and give Mozilla Firefox users access to the largest selection of the most popular books, all without leaving their web browser.”
“Kindle Cloud Reader is a great example of an HTML5 application that offers a seamless shopping and reading experience within the browser,” said Chris Blizzard, Mozilla Firefox Director of Platform Product Management. “As the creator of Firefox and HTML5 leader, we are excited to see Amazon deliver this innovative approach to e-books to the more than 450 million Firefox users worldwide.”
Kindle Cloud Reader is the latest Kindle reading application and leverages HTML5. With Kindle Cloud Reader, customers can read Kindle books instantly using only their web browser – online or offline – with no downloading or installation required. As with all Kindle apps, Kindle Cloud Reader automatically synchronizes your Kindle library, as well as your last page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights for all of your Kindle books, no matter how you choose to read them. To make it easy and seamless to discover new books, Kindle Cloud Reader includes an integrated, touch optimized store, allowing customers one click access to a vast selection of books.
Kindle Cloud Reader is available for Safari on iPad, Safari on desktop, Chrome and, starting today, Mozilla Firefox 6 and above. Kindle Cloud Reader on the iPad is optimized for the size and unique touch interface of iPad. Without even leaving the app, customers can start shopping in the Kindle Store and will find a unique and immersive shopping experience built specifically for iPad’s Safari browser.
Amazon.com customers can start reading their Kindle books immediately using Kindle Cloud Reader at http://read.amazon.com.
About Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth’s Biggest Selection. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as Books; Movies, Music & Games; Digital Downloads; Electronics & Computers; Home & Garden; Toys, Kids & Baby; Grocery; Apparel, Shoes & Jewelry; Health & Beauty; Sports & Outdoors; and Tools, Auto & Industrial. Amazon Web Services provides Amazon’s developer customers with access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon’s own back-end technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any type of business. The new latest generation Kindle is the lightest, most compact Kindle ever and features the same 6-inch, most advanced electronic ink display that reads like real paper even in bright sunlight. Kindle Touch is a new addition to the Kindle family with an easy-to-use touch screen that makes it easier than ever to turn pages, search, shop, and take notes – still with all the benefits of the most advanced electronic ink display. Kindle Touch 3G is the top of the line e-reader and offers the same new design and features of Kindle Touch, with the unparalleled added convenience of free 3G. Kindle Fire is the Kindle for movies, TV shows, music, books, magazines, apps, games and web browsing with all the content, free storage in the Amazon Cloud, Whispersync, Amazon Silk (Amazon’s new revolutionary cloud-accelerated web browser), vibrant color touch screen, and powerful dual-core processor. [/showhide]
Michael Kozlowski is the editor-in-chief at Good e-Reader and has written about audiobooks and e-readers for the past fifteen years. Newspapers and websites such as the CBC, CNET, Engadget, Huffington Post and the New York Times have picked up his articles. He Lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
