It is an odd announcement that causes me to hijack my daughters Kindle Fire and Laptop. But I really wanted a sense of how this felt. After downloading the Send to Kindle desktop application onto the laptop and configuring it to use her Amazon account a print option 'Send to Kindle" appears in most applications. The most interesting place is in Word.
In many ways this functions in a manner similar to 'Save as PDF'. The format of what is printed is converted to a format that Kindle can display. The next step is the file is forwarded to Amazons cloud and then forwarded on to the kindle. But this all happens without the user comprehending or needing to comprehending how it occurs.
The result is the document appears on her Kindle. Which means she is now in a position to develop content for the Kindle with minimal effort. Furthermore, this will expand. The end goal is her Kindle becomes the most import device. And it has taken on the role of presenter of her cloud based Amazon account which starts to position itself as the ITunes of information stores.
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