Amazon Scribd competition with an application for Kindle Fire - Actualitté.com

Since the launch of its digital book service online reading Scribd grows each day a little more. Agreements with publishers or availability of the application on different platforms, the library struck a S grows slowly. And just made a giant leap by providing the application reading on Kindle Fire.

service reading digital books was launched last October, with a price set at $ 8.99 per month to access a large collection of ebooks, more or less legal, by the way … The Company estimates that hundreds of thousands of readers have visited the site since a Kindle Fire last month, and are therefore likely to be interested in any fresh application.

Amazon is not fooled however, and knows that Scribd could scratch its market Scribd finds herself banished from the App Store Kindle, an absence that does not seem entirely coincidental. Developers have nonetheless published application, it will download it here and install it manually.

Scribd already has Android and iOS applications, which have been downloaded a total of 3 million users since last October. Trip Adler, CEO of Scribd, is in any case enthusiastic about the developments in society, Kindle Fire or a more comprehensive way, “ Kindle Fire users are known to be voracious readers. We believe that this application is particularly appropriate for them, giving them what they want. “

“ We build the library of the future, and it goes well beyond books. Magazines, comics, academic articles, people can contribute their own content , “said he added.

Sources : The Next Web, TeleRead

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