Amazon is preparing to launch its Kindle service on the web this week, offering up a rival to Google's recently announced (and currently US only) ebook service.
The Kindle e-reader is synonymous with ebooks, so it makes sense that Amazon expands the brand to the web and away from the device.
It has already launched a successful Kindle mobile phone app on myriad formats and it will be hoping to be able to emulate this success with the web.
Caught in a web
The new Kindle web service will allow users to read an ebook straight from the web browser.
This isn't exactly groundbreaking, but it will hopefully offer synergy between all of the Kindle apps, so if you forget your ebook reader you will be able to carry to read the book on an available computer.
It will also mean that those who use locked-down machines at work will be able to read their ebooks without fear the thought police will attack as you downloaded an illegitimate program.
There's rumours abound that the Kindle web service will be available as soon as tomorrow, 8 December.
We're just hoping that this one will be available in the UK – unlike Google who is leaving us wanting with Google eBooks.
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