Amazon.com has updated its mobile app store to include support for its Chinese customers, in a sign that the U.S. company could be preparing to sell its Kindle e-readers and tablets in the country.The update effectively launches a new version of Amazon's app store built in the Chinese language. The store comes in the form of an Android app, and the company has been promoting it since this past weekend.The arrival of the new store comes just months after Amazon launched its Kindle ebook service in China last December. Both are key platforms for bringing content to the company's Kindle devices in the U.S. market. But in China, Amazon has yet to start selling its tablet and e-reader hardware, and its local offices have been mum on a future release date. The company on Monday did not immediately respond for comment.Despite the absence of official sales, the Chinese market is showing some "pent-up demand" for Amazon's e-readers, said Mark Natkin, managing director of Beijing-based Marbridge Consulting. Research data from last year showed that Chinese consumers were increasingly buying the e-readers from overseas markets, he added.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Continue reading at 'PC World'
[ PC World | 2013-05-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ The Bookseller | 2011-02-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ Folio Magazine | 2011-02-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ PC World | 2011-01-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ PC World | 2011-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ Publishers Weekly | 2011-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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