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Congrats to iPod Touch users, you can now read books using software from Amazon.com Inc’s Kindle electronic reader. This latest news dispelled speculation that Amazon plans to compete more directly with smartphone providers by adding more functions to the Kindle, which represents a tiny fraction of the company’s business. Amazon’s free application is available on Apple’s Web store and allows consumers to synchronize Kindles with iPhones and iPod Touch. Users will have access to more than 240,000 books available on Kindle. The Kindle, priced at $359, has excited investors and gadget lovers since its launch in 2007, with some speculating the device might eventually be enhanced to compete with gadgets like the iPhone or iPod. But Amazon was more interested remaining the No. 1 retailer of e-books, rather than competing directly with Apple on devices.

This move by Amazon is significant because it reduces the possibility of a competing, smaller form factor device becoming a player in the market. Amazon was paving the way to becoming the dominant e-book platform, while adding that reading on devices like the iPod or iPhone would still be challenging, given their small screen sizes.

Some gadget lovers had speculated that a larger iPod-like device rumored to be in the works at Apple would have included e-book reading functions to rival the Kindle. With the “Kindle for iPhone and iPod touch” application, a user can read a few pages of a book on the Kindle or its newer version, Kindle 2, and continue reading from where they left off on the iPhone or iPod Touch. If you are a Kindle owner and you are reading your book on your Kindle and you leave your Kindle at your home, you can now actually use your iPhone or iPod Touch and it will pick up where you left off. It is a great companion. Users can shop for books on their Kindle or online and wirelessly transfer them to their iPhone or iPod Touch. They will also be able to access all previously purchased Kindle books, adjust the text size or add bookmarks. A serious downside may be that consumers cannot buy Kindle e-books directly but have to go through a Web browser to the Kindle store. Moreover, the application only supports books, but not newspapers or magazines at the moment. But all these may soon change.