Kindle for the PC Tailored to Windows 7

Those of you who watched the New York City launch of Windows 7, via live streaming or on-demand, have undoubtedly caught a glimpse of a new application that is heading to Windows PCs from Amazon. Kindle for the PC will be offered as a free download once it becomes available, Microsoft informed. Just like the Kindle devices from Amazon, the Window-based reader will offer customers access to in excess of 360,000 books, right from a Windows machine. In addition, because of Whispersync, Amazon will ensure that end users will have not just their books synchronized across all Kindle devices, but also notes, bookmarks, etc.

“Kindle for PC takes advantage of key Windows 7 features such as Windows Touch for zooming in and out with a pinch of the fingers and turning pages with the swipe of a finger. It also includes integration with the Windows Taskbar through a Jump List. I’ve been playing with it for the last few days on my HP TouchSmart tx2 and it’s wonderful,” noted Brandon LeBlanc, Windows communications manager on the Windows Client Communications Team.

In the video embedded at the bottom of this article you will be able to see a demonstration of Kindle for PC running on a computer with Windows 7. The demo is designed to illustrate the intimate level of integration between Kindle for PC and the latest iteration of the Windows client. Microsoft already demonstrated the PC version of Kindle at the NYC Windows 7 launch on October 22nd, 2009.

“Kindle for PC will also run on PCs running Windows XP and Windows Vista as well. The Kindle for PC application also uses Amazon’s Whispersync technology. This allows the application to sync bookmarks and the last read page across PCs (and other devices such as the Kindle and Kindle DX),” LeBlanc added.

Amazon is gearing up to release a beta of Kindle for PC in November. The company has even put up a webpage designed to let users sign up and receive notifications when the software will become available.