Amazon.com plans to expand its Kindle e-reader franchise onto BlackBerry smartphones, according to a note on the online retail Website. Kindle applications can already be downloaded for the iPhone and Windows PCs. While the e-readers produced by Amazon.com and rival Barnes Noble are seen as primarily directed at consumers, the business segment, in which BlackBerry mobile devices are popular, is also seen as a potentially huge customer base for e-readers.
– BlackBerry users may be irritated by the Dec. 17 e-mail outage that hit
their devices, but there’s a bit of good news for the bibliophiles among them:
According to Amazon.com, a Kindle e-reader application is on the way for
BlackBerry smartphones.
As for a release date, quot;Coming soon quot; …