Amazon Kindle Newsstand

This week Amazon released the Kindle Fire. Along with the Kindle fire they have released their version of the newsstand. The Newsstand is basically the ability to subscribe to magazines and be able to read them on an electronic device in full color. This gives the ability to create an almost seamless transition for magazines to be converted into the digital space. The only problem right now is the magazines are only available for the Kindle Fire. I was hoping that there would be an update to Amazon’s Android Kindle app that will allow them to read the magazines. As of this posting there has bee no update released to spread this to any of Amazon’s apps.

This could be because Amazon wants to keep this exclusively for the Kindle Fire right now and not undermine the success of this launch just yet. They probably will update the Android Kindle app with the ability to read magazines in the future. I was just hoping that they would be able to do that now with the launch of the Fire. I am slowly turning my Acer tablet into a dedicated reading device for full color items and this will give me even more of an incentive to get some magazines.

Amazon will be competing with Barnes & Noble, and Zinio for digital magazines. Which both of them allow you to read their digital magazines on any device that supports their apps. Hopefully Amazon will be updating there Kindle apps quick to get a larger user base to read magazines through Amazon.