Amazon is bringing the Kindle to all kinds of devices.

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Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos spoke on Monday at the Wired Business Conference, discussing his company and the future of the Amazon Kindle.

After discussions on Google Book Search and other topics, Bezos sprinkled in a few tidbits of information that could have a lasting impact both on the e-book business and the tech industry as a whole. According to Bezos, he plans to break the Kindle business into two parts: hardware and software.

Amazon’s e-books are already available on the iPhone. Users who want to access titles can download the Kindle app and purchase books from Amazon’s store. But Bezos wants to do more. He believes that the path to success is through sharing e-book technology with competing hardware makers.

“The device team has the job of making the most remarkable purpose-built reading device in the world,” Bezos stated at the conference. “We are going to give the device team competition. We’ll make Kindle books, at the same $9.99 price points, available on the iPhone, and other mobile devices and other computing devices.”

It might be the smartest move Amazon has made yet.

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source The Digital Home

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