Amazon has released Kindle for Mac
. Unlike the iPhone App, where Apple forced them to remove the ability to buy books, the Mac application will allow shopping in the Kindle store without leaving the Kindle interface.Read Kindle Books on Your Mac
- Get the best reading experience available on your Mac. No Kindle required
- Access your Kindle books even if you don't have your Kindle with you
- Automatically synchronizes your last page read and annotations between devices with Whispersync
- Create bookmarks and view the annotations you created on your Kindle
- Search and browse more than 450,000 books, including 101 of 112 New York Times® Best Sellers. If you are a non-U.S. customer, book availability may vary
- Find New York Times Best Sellers and new releases for $9.99, unless marked otherwise
- Get free book samples - read the first chapter for free before you decide to buy
- Books you purchase can also be read on a Kindle
- Kindle newspapers, magazines, and blogs are not currently available for Kindle for Mac
- A Mac with a 500MHz Intel processor or faster
- At least 512MB of RAM
- Screen resolution of 800x600 or greater
- Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
- 100MB of available disk space
