{"id":48614,"date":"2017-10-25T05:52:41","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T05:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=48614"},"modified":"2017-10-25T05:52:41","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T05:52:41","slug":"amazon-revamps-the-kindle-app-with-a-new-design-and-deeper-goodreads-integration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/amazon-revamps-the-kindle-app-with-a-new-design-and-deeper-goodreads-integration.html","title":{"rendered":"Amazon revamps the Kindle app with a new design and deeper Goodreads integration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amazon revamps the Kindle app with a new design and deeper Goodreads integration<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Amazon revamps the Kindle app with a new design and deeper Goodreads integration:- With the release of the new waterproof Oasis about a week out and the Kindle line\u2019s 10th anniversary happening next month, it\u2019s as good a time as any for the company to release an overhaul version of its reading app. Amazon releasing a new version of Kindle for iOS and Android today, featuring a redesign, much deeper Goodreads integration and persistent search.<\/span><\/p>\n

In spite of media claims regarding its death, Amazon\u2019s still pretty bullish about this whole \u201creading\u201d \u201cbooks\u201d thing. In addition to the Kindle line having its best ever 24 hours during last year\u2019s Prime Day, the company says more people than ever are reading books through the platform. The company\u2019s VP Jeff Kunins told TechCrunch that people read more pages and bought more books through the Kindle store than ever last year.<\/span><\/p>\n

And while Amazon\u2019s got a bit of a stranglehold on e-reader hardware here in the States, the company\u2019s mobile apps have no doubt played a pretty large role in the uptick in numbers, fueled by the introduction of the Kindle Unlimited subscription service and Prime Reading, which offers select titles for free to Prime members.<\/span><\/p>\n

The biggest upgrade to the app is more meaningful integration of Goodreads, the social reading network Amazon snapped up back in 2013. The service has been offered up in bits and pieces through the Kindle mobile app, but here it\u2019s essentially given its own separate tab, bringing most of the Goodreads standalone app\u2019s features to the interface. That means getting friends\u2019 updates, adding people, rating books and the like.<\/span><\/p>\n

For those who aren\u2019t already signed up for the service, Goodreads will still feature into the Kindle app, but all of the content will come from \u201cinfluencers.\u201d Amazon was fairly slow in integrating the service after acquisition, but making it unavoidable is sure to drive up sign ups for the service. That sort of social engagement is also precisely what Amazon needs to sell even more books, as users share titles back and forth.<\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking of sales, search is now front and center on the app. The search bar up top can be used to find already purchased titles, and Amazon will recommend additional selections from the Kindle store, so you\u2019re never too far away from being able to buy a book.<\/span><\/p>\n

The UI also gets an overhaul. Things have lightened up quite a bit, with a new, white background that features a darkening gradient as it pushes out toward the edge of the page, to mimic the oxidation effect that old books undergo. The cover images are bigger, as well, and a bunch of thought has apparently been put into the font selections, going mostly with san serif and reserving serifed fonts for titles, for a little bit of a nod to those old timey paper books.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-\u00a0https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/10\/24\/amazon-revamps-the-kindle-app-with-a-new-design-and-deeper-good-reads-integration\/<\/span><\/p>\n

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