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There are 450,000 reasons that Amazon Kindle shouldn’t worry about the new iPad iBooks Launch.  That’s the number of books, magazines and other publications that Amazon’s e-Reader has in its catalog.

According to several analysis pieces on the subject of Amazon -v- Apple, it appears that Kindle mitigated what could have been a devistating situation by releasing it’s Amazon Kindle App so early on the iPhone and then updating it for the iPad.

Portability of the books seems to be key as well.  Media purchased through the iBooks application from Apple is only available in that application, whereas the Kindle’s book purchases can be read on the Kindle device itself, the iPad, phones and personal computers as well as tablet PCs.

Meanwhile, at launch of the iPad, 250,000 books were downloaded at launch according to Apple’s statistics.  What e-Reader platform that happened on, or who took the higher percentage remains a mystery.

Amazon’s Kindle App for the iPad has several advantages overApple’s iBook eReader app. For one, Kindle provides access to more than 450,000 books, blogs, magazines and newspapers whereas iBook had just 60,000 titles at launch.

Also, content downloaded through iBooks is only available on the iPad; it can’tbe viewed on any other devices – even Apple’s own products. By comparison, content purchased through the Kindle app can be viewed on all of Apple’sproducts as well as BlackBerry handsets and personal computers.

Story by: Maisie Ramsay | Original Published Date: 4/6/2010
Original Title: iPad Release: No Worries for Amazon
Source: Wireless Week

Filed under: iPad Competition · Tags: Amazon Kindle, competition, e-Reader, iBooks