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.
Michael Kozlowski is the Editor in Chief of Good e-Reader. He has been writing about audiobooks and e-readers for the past ten years. His articles have been picked up by major and local news sources and websites such as the CNET, Engadget, Huffington Post and Verge.