BlackBerry users get Amazon Kindle app

From CNET News.com: Continuing its effort to expand the e-book business beyond its own hardware, Amazon.com on Thursday released a Kindle application for BlackBerry phones.

Amazon got its start as an online book seller, expanded to electronics and other retail categories, then returned to its roots with its own Kindle reader devices. More recently, though, it expanded with Kindle applications that let people read books on the iPhone and iPod Touch and on Windows computers. After purchasing rights to read a book, a customer may read it on any of those devices.

That device list now includes BlackBerry phones, and according to Amazon, soon also will include Apple's Macs and iPads. Amazon didn't mention Android phone support in the announcement.

"Since the launch of our popular Kindle for iPhone app last year, customers have been asking us to bring a similar experience to the BlackBerry, and we are thrilled to make it available today," said Ian Freed, Amazon's vice president for Kindle work.

The electronic book market is burgeoning after years of obscurity, catalyzed in part by the Kindle. However, Kindle doesn't have the market to itself anymore, with dedicated e-book readers arriving from Barnes & Noble and others and with Apple's forthcoming iPad sporting e-book reading as only one of several abilities.

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