Amazon Updates Kindle for Android App for Tablets

Amazon has updated its Kindle for Android app, adding new features and support for tablets running Android's Honeycomb. The latest version of Kindle for Android includes new shopping experience tailored for tablets, a new layout for newspapers and magazines, and more enhancements that take advantage of the larger screens.

New features:

• Seamless integrated shopping experience tailored for tablets gives you quick access to personalized recommendations, customer reviews, and more
• Refined newspaper and magazine layout including full color images
• Ability to pause, resume download at any time
• Enhanced word look-up capability (for Android-based phones and tablets) with built-in dictionary with over 250,000 entries and definitions.

Learn more about Kindle for Android at www.amazon.com/kindleforandroid and download the app from the Amazon Appstore for Android or Android Market.

"We've taken all the features customers love about Kindle for Android, and created a beautiful new user interface and a seamless shopping experience tailored to the look and feel of Honeycomb tablets," said Dorothy Nicholls, Director, Amazon Kindle. "As always, Kindle customers 'Buy Once, Read Everywhere,' so Kindle for Android is the perfect companion for the millions of customers who own a Kindle and a way for customers around the world to download and enjoy books on their Android phone or tablet even if they don't yet own a Kindle."