Sribd well known service overseas has grown from a platform material to the players offering an unlimited subscription decidedly fashionable, even for children. With over 100,000 ebooks from more than 900 publishers, Scribd offers an unlimited subscription for $ 8.99 / month.
Scribd was installed on 11 million devices in late 2013, with an exponential growth. But today, Scribd is especially about him to launch an app for Kindle Fire, which is important when you consider that Kindle tablets are among the most sold in the United States.
Apparently, nothing very surprising then to see this player application already on iOS and Google Play also happen on the Kindle Fire. But it gets more interesting when you know that Amazon has not authorized this application in its application store.
Manual installation required
Scanning application Scribd can not in fact be directly downloaded from the Kindle store applications. It must be said that in this area, Amazon is far from being conciliatory, and chose to close the door to everyone or almost to showcase its range of reading.
Yet, according to its founder, Scribd has done everything necessary to be offered on the app store, and tried for three months to obtain a license, in vain. Despite the brake posed by having to go download the application part, propose the application responds to a real demand from users of Scribd.
Scribd therefore proposes an alternative solution, which requires going through a few simple steps, the first being to allow applications from unknown sources on the Kindle Fire download before downloading a file. apk from the Silk browser of Kindle Fire and install it.
The application then appears like any other on the Kindle Fire. Height of the situation, Scribd actually uses the same technique as that used by possibility to install Amazon’s app store on Android devices, which is not available on Google Play.
That in any case that has something to think about other actors who do not have either been accepted by Amazon, but Amazon, whose policy is indeed based on the sales of content, not tablets, but that should be rethought. In addition, the Kindle 1 application, often no reading applications in other application stores, has demonstrated that it is resistant to the comparison. When you see the success and quality of the latest tablets at very attractive prices, this policy is Amazon’s main handicap today against its competitors.
Pending any change in this area, Scribd has in any case a solution.
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