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Kindle app coming to BlackBerry 10 in March

By Adam Zeis on 7 Mar 2013 11:34 am
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While we anxiously await the US release and some big name apps that should come along with it (we're looking at you, Skype) we did get word today that the Amazon Kindle app will soon be heading to BlackBerry 10. We've been told that the Kindle app will be available this month, so it won't be more than a few weeks before it hits BlackBerry World.

The free Kindle app is one that many will be delighted to see available even though those that wanted it bad enough have already side loaded the Android version. No word on if the app is straight-up BB10 or a port of the Android version, but with something like Kindle it shouldn't really matter - we'll take it however we can get it.

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ddlax22

Hopefully it materializes unlike the playbook one..

Rootbrian

You *can* sideload it.

spike12

Will this be accessible from Canada?

123berryaddicted

I don't see why not. I currently have the android version side loaded on my z10 and it loads all my purchases content just fine.

svjones

Why are they advertising it with the Bold 9000?

Adam Zeis

That's just a shot of the current site they have for the old Kindle app.

Camelhmpz

Ya, I hope this isn't like the playbook app with kindle. Maybe when bb10 comes to the playbook, it will be apply there to and I can ditch the buggy android side load.

raremage

Same here. The side loaded app works pretty poorly on my PB. A native app would be ideal!

Yandar

Fingers crossed that you can still sideload your own books with this version, unlike windows phone and iphone, If it cant, I shall be sticking with the sideloaded android app.

machoman1337

Windows Phone 7 and iOS had locked-down file systems (i.e. can't use the phone as a USB). You couldn't drag and drop any file you wanted off your PC - you had to open some stupid program and be limited to transferring only very specific media formats.

Android and BB don't, so I'm sure you can sideload books because the app will be able to access the file system properly.

1canuck2

You can effectively sideload books to any Kindle app using Amazon's "email this book to your device" feature. Simply email the mobi and it shows up in the cloud and/or gets delivered directly to the device. Its more convenient than sideloading as you do not even have to tether anything...

I have Kindle app in iPad, Nexus 7, and iPod Touch. All registered to the same Amaxzon account. With WhisperSync on top of the email feature, its a pretty sweet solution!

Serkle K

Yeah, I'll believe it when I see it. They dupped us into believing it was coming to the PlayBook... The article title says BB10, but the amazon site has a Bold 9000???

brandonwh

What about a Kobo app?

ryanlrobinson

Yes, I bought into the Kobo ecosystem because of their PlayBook partnership so I'd like to continue with that.

ps4rh

Me too. I have a bunch of Kobo purchases.

DanielLui1

I've bought a lot of eBooks with Kobo as well and so I'm hoping to see Kobo develop a version of the app that's compatible with BlackBerry 10 as well.

mago72

Kobo answer to Sam´s Tech Blog question at march, 01 ( http://samtblog.wordpress.com/2013/03/01/kobo-for-blackberry-10-still-mi... ) :

“Thank you for contacting Kobo Customer Care. We are sorry to inform you that, at this time, the Kobo app is not yet compatible with the Blackberry 10 smartphone. Since the smartphone was recently released, our Development team are currently in the process of making the app available on this device.

You will be notified as soon as the Kobo app is ready for this device.
Please let us know if you have any other questions or concerns.â€

So, Kobo app is arriving too!

G-bone

Thanks! Kobo and Kindle are the two apps I'm most looking forward to. :)

#BB10Believe

pepe241185

Great to Know Kobo cares about its BB10 customers ...

cappo40

Good to hear...Keep the apps coming :D

sk8er_tor

This isn't like the Skype app where you make a call and you just sit in front of the device and video chat. The Kindle app has to be a native app since it will involve a lot of interaction with the app.

ps4rh

Does it have to be native? Even the Android version doesn't use many Android controls and as such it wouldn't look much different.

BB_Bmore

Even if its not native ,its not like they won't have it optimized to run great. This won't be a simple apk to bar conversion all us PLAYBOOK owners know so well.

They will have it working nicely either way.

Zeerak Imran

first kindle, then amazon, then ebay hopefully

Zach Gilbert

Now we just need Audible! (ps, it's an Amazon company.)

mechanoid

will it be like the kindle for bb app though? available for US customers only?

BB_Bmore

Nice I so can't wait to actually see and hold a  10 device here in the next couple of weeks. Right now I'm going for a Q10 and I'm delighted to read that it will likely launch with 10.1

Its finally becoming real for us Americans.

Trini-34

I have never used the Kindle app before so I am not really missing anything. I do use Kobo Books and I love it. Simple, easy to use, always supported BB etc... Again this is my $0.02

scalemaster34

I wonder what the ratio of Kindle users to Kobo users is??

Think BB would be much better off with a Kindle app, but having both shouldn't be a problem.

Playbook007

Glad to see some of us are willing to use good alternatives and not get hung up on a name.

axllebeer

Skipping the BBOS 7 a and PlayBook all together now actually making it to BB10. About time. Hopefully not the same version I have side loaded on my PlayBook. But it works. Hopefully this one will be better optimized.

FR33MAN

So big app names are arriving!
Patience is a virtue

AMWausau

If only they had it for the Playbook two years ago. If only I could get a BB 10

artie

Native is the way to go, that is why I stay with BlackBerry.

newportironman

Obviously native would be better. But I've been running (along w/ many others I'm sure) a sideloaded Android version on the Playbook for over a year. It works just fine. I don't see anything lacking but then I am not a power Kindle user.

artie

Forgive my ignorance but instead of sideloading why not just go with an Android or IPhone? Edumicate me please.

Playbook007

We are talking just about a reader app. We give up Kindle for what BlackBerry offers that the others dont.

Rootbrian

I wouldn't even touch those devices. My blackberry smartphone and playbook satisfy me, I don't need those others. ;)

Abrante

BB10 is continuing to look promising. I am still debating whether I am upgrading when T-mo releases it in the USA. Great app to have on the platform!

saint613

YES! This news is great and I can post from CB10!

Posted via CB10 on my Z10!

Playbook007

I use Kobo and other apps that fill in my needs. I never worry about a specific name. If Netflix, Skype, Whatsapp, and instagram never come, I will never miss them. BlackBerry more than meets my needs and the z10 with BBM and the hub is too much to give up for any app.

sam299

With the time they're taking, it had damn well better be native! Pity that Skype will be an android app as well. Even though I understand they're modifying it to integrate with the hub etc, it shouldn't take them this long to release the Skype app. And man do I wish that would be a native app too! Native is a much, much better experience than Android apps in most cases, especially until we finally get the Jelly Bean runtime! 2.3 Gingerbread apps are starting to feel very old on a brand spanking new OS

raw_dog

Believe it when I see it.

allengeorge

[sigh] Hope it's a native app. I'm not a fan of Android ports, because they don't feel like they're integrated into the rest of the system.

JamesPtheNerd

I've been in dialog with the support people since October, as well as several screen shots of the app side loaded. Never an issue. It's one Android app I wouldn't mind on my BlackBerry. That, and Google Maps.

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ICE_CREAM_SANDWICH

More Book to Read. A thousand kind. Perhaps Million of Book..