Amazon has just pushed a new mandatory update to their apps for iPhone and iPad. This is to insure full compliance with massive new iOS 7 firmware update that should be available next week. Apple is holding a press party on Tuesday, where they are expected to announce a new two new iPhones, iBooks for iPhone and updates to their Apple TV service.
The average tablet owner simply does not always keep their apps up to date. In your circle of friends, there is always one person who seems to have always have a thousand emails in their inbox or never updates their apps. This is the Amazon update that you should install because it preserves all of the books you have downloaded on your device. If you update to iOS 7 and don’t update the Amazon app you have to download all of your books again.
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.