Amazon Kindle Mac app update adds gesture features and visually richer Kindle book support

 Amazon Kindle Mac app update adds gesture support and Kindle format 8 support

Amazon has refreshed its Kindle app to include support for swiping and other gesture navigation features for Macs running Lion OS X or higher. It will now display Kindle's new Format 8 books, allowing for more complicated formatting, HTML5 support, pop-up text, embedded fonts and other visual accoutrements to spice up your Mac-based reading. The update also adds Japanese language support alongside the typical pile of bug fixes and tweaks. You can download the new reader from the Mac App Store now, right at the source link below.

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Amazon Kindle Mac app update adds gesture features and visually richer Kindle book support originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 10 Sep 2012 06:56:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Samsung warns Italians that Kobo is leaving the Readers Hub, teases ‘new and improved’ e-book service

Samsung warns Italians that Kobo is leaving the Readers Hub, teases 'new and improved' ebook service

We hope you took advantage of those Italian lessons. If you didn't, the gist is that Samsung has warned at least one HDBlog.it visitor (and Galaxy phone owner) that its Readers Hub will soon drop Kobo e-book support. While there isn't a mentioned cutoff point, Samsung is steering the faithful to the regular Kobo app on Google Play if they want to keep reading. The company's only explanation may be a good one: it's promising a "new and improved" e-book service that should be ready in the near future. We'd very much like to know what that is, but until Samsung is more forthcoming with actual details, we'll have to be content with the company's alert-as-teaser approach to marketing.

Samsung warns Italians that Kobo is leaving the Readers Hub, teases 'new and improved' e-book service originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 20 Jun 2012 19:51:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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