Still fleshing this one out. A little help would be appreciated.
Former Truth: You must have a Kindle registered to your Amazon account in order to purchase Kindle books.
New Truth: As of March 2009, U.S. resident owners of iPhones and iPod Touches are able to download the
Kindle for iPhone app which allows them to purchase Kindle books whether or not a Kindle is registered to their Amazon accounts.
- No Kindle required
- Access your Kindle books even if you don't have your Kindle with you Automatically synchronizes your last page read between devices with Amazon Whispersync
- Adjust the text size, add bookmarks, and view the annotations you created on your Kindle
- Compatible with iPhone and iPod Touch. Requires iPhone 2.1 software update
Whole Truth: While the Kindle for iPhone app allows iPhone and iPod Touch users to purchase and download Kindle books to their devices, the app does not have all the features of the Kindle.
- iPhone and iPod Touch only owners (no Kindle registered) may not download Kindle books to their computers
- iPhone and iPod Touch only owners are not assigned an "@kindle.com" email address and may not email content to their devices via the Amazon conversion service
- iPhone and iPod Touch only owners may not subscribe to Kindle blogs and newspapers
- The Kindle for iPhone app does not have dictionary support
- The kindle for iPhone app will only read books downloaded from Amazon's Kindle store. Books from other sources need to use one of the many other reading apps in the iTunes store.
- The kindle for iPhone app does not have text search capability
- The kindle for iPhone app does not have text highlighting or clipping capability
- The kindle for iPhone app does not have annotation capability
- The kindle for iPhone app does not have Text-to-Speech capability as does Kindle 2
- The kindle for iPhone app cannot shop the Kindle Store directly. iPhone and iPod Touch users must either use Safari on their devices to shop the store or their computers and have the books sent to their device(s). Books samples may also be sent this way.