Kindle app for iPad now live

I just bought an ebook of poetry from Amazon through the iPad Kindle app. Formatting is terrible. The title of the next poem is included as a final line to the previous poem.

Honestly, I prefer the Kindle app for iPad over the iBooks app. Just seems to be a more pleasurable reading experience from my limited use so far.

Agreed, Joshua. Ever since iBooks was announced, I've been concerned that other e-readers would be blocked from the iPad. That said, I'm kind of excited to try iBooks. The ability to combine my free epub content with my paid ebooks is very appealing. Right now if I want to read something 80 years old and free, I use Stanza. If I want to read something still in copyright, I use the Kindle app. It would be really nice just have one application.

But so far Kindle still has a pretty strong advantage by being available on both the iPad and the iPhone/iPod Touch. Plus your place in the book syncs on-line, so you can switch between devices. As someone who syncs daily, the 2nd issue is a workable limitation (for me) when considering iBooks. But being able to read my content on multiple devices is a pretty big deal. Not to mention that the two devices I'd like to use are both Apple devices. I can only hope that Apple will come up an iPhone version of iBooks. Until then Kindle remains a very attractive alternative.

I'm just relieved that it was actually approved by Apple.

Amazon is out to sell books and if they keep their app up to date and continue supporting reader options as they have been they'll do better than ibook.

This is funny, "Note that books bought through the Kindle for iPad app must be read within the app itself and will not be viewable in Apple's iBooks app, nor will they show up in the Books library in iTunes' source list."

How about this, "Note that books bought through the Kindle for iPad app must be read with within the app itself, whether on your ipad or on your mac, pc, iphone, ipod, blackberry or even kindle. But these books will not show up in your itunes library. Ibook purchases, although they show up in your library, can only be read on the ipad." I think that's a much more rounded description of the kindle app.

I believe I will prefer to buy my books using Kindle. I like the flexibility of switching between my iPhone, iPad, Kindle, and home and work computers.

Until iBooks can be read on an iPhone, I'm kinda rooting for Amazon in all this.

I wonder how long before we'll get an app that will show us the libraries of both services and which one has what book for cheaper.