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ASUS as well as Amazon group up to pre-install Kindle for PERSONAL COMPUTER upon netbooks as well as laptops
ASUS sells tons of laptops through Amazon.com. Amazon happens to suggest a Kindle for PERSONAL COMPUTER application. Heck, because not team up as well as pre-install a app upon a ASUS netbooks and laptops which are sole by a online e-trailer? Sure creates the lot of clarity to us, as well as assumingly it did to both Amazon as well as ASUS. Starting currently, select laptops — together with a Eee PERSONAL COMPUTER 1005PE and UL30 — will be sold with a e-book app loaded up. Frankly, we’re not the greatest fans of pre-installed program cluttering up uninformed screens, though this arrange of partnership surely creates clarity with sure inclination — in sold, automobile tablets which you’d make use of to review. You know what would additionally have sense? ASUS preloading a little arrange of Amazon application upon the Eee Pad. That’s only us personification have hold, but it seems similar to a dual companies have been positively articulate. We’re set upon getting the fill of ASUS tablet news at Computex subsequent week, though in a meantime strike a mangle for the full Amazon / ASUS PR. Show full PR textASUS Pre-installs Kindle for PERSONAL COMPUTER Application on Award-Winning Netbooks as well as Notebooks
Customers regulating Kindle for PERSONAL COMPUTER can enjoy over 540,000 books, together with New York Times Bestsellers as well as New Releases, upon ASUS’ ultimate netbook as well as notebook products
FREMONT, California (May 24, 2010) - ASUS currently voiced which Amazon’s “Kindle for PERSONAL COMPUTER” application, that lets readers enjoy Kindle books upon their personal computers (PC), will come pre-installed on name ASUS netbooks as well as notebooks sole during Amazon.com. Kindle for PERSONAL COMPUTER enables business to find as well as review from over 540,000 books in a Kindle Store -the largest preference of a many renowned books which people wish to review — together with New York Times Bestsellers as well as New Releases labeled from $9.99.
Like all Kindle apps, Kindle for PERSONAL COMPUTER includes Amazon’s Whispersync record, that saves as well as synchronizes the customer’s notes, highlights, bookmarks as well as final page review opposite their Kindle, Kindle DX, PERSONAL COMPUTER, Mac as well as alternative inclination so customers regularly have their understanding element with them as well as never lose their place either during home or on-the-go.
“We have been thrilled that business will begin to suffer a Kindle for PERSONAL COMPUTER knowledge right out of a box with ASUS inclination,” pronounced Ben Thacker, VP Sales as well as Product Management, Systems Business Group, North American Channel, ASUS Computer International. “Kindle is something the business have been asking for as well as by pre-installing Kindle for PERSONAL COMPUTER upon select prolonged battery holdup products, you hold you have been on condition that the customers an even richer PERSONAL COMPUTER knowledge. Working with the customer-centric association such as Amazon and pre-installing their Kindle for PERSONAL COMPUTER application is the healthy fit for ASUS.”
With a giveaway Kindle for PERSONAL COMPUTER pre-installed upon name ASUS netbooks as well as notebooks, consumers can take value of a following features as well as some-more:
· Purchase, download, and read some-more than 540,000 books, including 96 of 110 New York Times Bestsellers, and tens of thousands of a many renowned classics for giveaway without delay from their ASUS device. Bestsellers such as “Backlash” by Aaron Allston, “Big Girl” by Danielle Steel, “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot as well as “The Lost Symbol” by Dan Brown, as well as hundreds of thousands of alternative popular books have been $9.99 or reduction in a Kindle Store
· Browse by genre or writer, as well as take advantage of all the facilities which they suffer in a Kindle Store, together with Amazon.com patron reviews, personalized recommendations as well as paper reviews
· Read a commencement of books for free prior to they confirm to buy
· Access their Kindle books even if they don’t have Kindle with them
· Synchronize final page review in between their Kindle, Kindle DX, PERSONAL COMPUTER, Mac, as well as alternative inclination
· Create brand-new highlights, notes as well as bookmarks, as well as conduct those combined upon their Kindle
· Choose from three dissimilar tone modes: review in white, sepia, or black tone modes as well as regulate a lightness of a arrangement from inside of a application
· Choose from some-more than 10 dissimilar rise sizes as well as regulate difference per line
· Read books regulating full-screen mode of their PC
“We consider business have been starting to adore a preference as well as morality of carrying present entrance to Kindle for PERSONAL COMPUTER from their ASUS device as well as entrance to the massive preference of Kindle books,” pronounced Jay Marine, Director, Amazon Kindle. “Kindle for PC lets business suffer over 540,000 books in a Kindle Store even if they don’t nonetheless have a Kindle, and the a undiluted messenger application for a millions of Kindle as well as Kindle DX owners.”
Kindle for PERSONAL COMPUTER is available currently as well as comes preinstalled upon a following ASUS Eee PERSONAL COMPUTER Netbooks with battery life** up to 11 hours:
1005PE-MU27- BK
1005PE-MU27-BU
1005PE-MU27-WT
1005PE-MU27-PI
And upon a following ASUS ultra skinny as well as light UL Series notebooks featuring over 11 hours of battery holdup **:
UL30A-X5K
UL30VT-X1K
These name ASUS netbooks as well as notebooks are accessible during Amazon.com with one more models nearing shortly.
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* Kindle for PERSONAL COMPUTER, the giveaway application that allows business to review Kindle calm upon a PERSONAL COMPUTER, is accessible for download on http://www.amazon.com/KindleforPC .
**Battery holdup totalled with MobileMark 2007 in reader mode as well as can be dissimilar formed on use as well as conditions. Please revisit http://usa.asus.com for some-more report. Specifications have been theme to change but before notice.
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About ASUS
ASUS is a heading association in a brand-new digital epoch, with the extended product portfolio that includes
notebooks, netbooks, motherboards, graphics cards, displays, desktop PCs, servers, wireless solutions, mobile phones and networking inclination. Driven by creation as well as committed to quality, ASUS designs as well as manufactures products which perfectly meet a needs of today’s home as well as bureau users. ASUS won
3,268 awards in 2009, and is at large credited with revolutionizing a PERSONAL COMPUTER industry with a Eee PC™.
With the tellurian staff of more than 10,000 as well as a world-class R&D pattern group, a company’s revenue for
2009 was US$7.5 billion. ASUS ranks between BusinessWeek’s InfoTech 100, and has been upon the inventory for 12 uninterrupted years.