Samsung Electronics and Amazon have entered a broad agreement to unveil Kindle for Samsung, a custom-built e-book service.
On its debut, the app will be available with the Galaxy S5, along with existing Samsung Galaxy smartphones and tablets above Android 4.0, worldwide.
As part of the service, Amazon and Samsung will roll out Samsung Book Deals, available to all customers using Kindle for Samsung. Samsung Book Deals provides up to 12 free e-books a year to all Galaxy device users.
Customers can choose a free book from a selection of four different titles every month. Each book is selected specifically for Galaxy smartphone and tablet users from a wide variety of prominent titles.
"We are delighted to be able to deepen our long-standing relationship with Amazon and offer Kindle for Samsung as the perfect app for reading on a smart device," says Craige Fleischer, director of mobile communications at Samsung Electronics SA.
"With this service, we demonstrate our commitment to creating and broadening key content partnerships that deliver rich and personalised solution offerings to our customers."
"We're thrilled that Samsung has chosen Kindle as their e-book provider," says Russ Grandinetti, VP, Amazon Kindle.
"With Kindle for Samsung, people around the world will have instant access to the best digital bookstore and reading experience, including more than half a million titles that are only available from the Kindle Store and innovative features like Whispersync, Time to Read and much more."
The companies say Kindle for Samsung offers readers millions of best-selling books, newspapers and magazines on their mobile devices including over 500 000 titles which are exclusive to the Kindle Store.
Other features include Whispersync, which saves and synchronises the last page read across devices, so that a reader can always pick up wherever they left off. Time to Read shows how much time it will take to finish a chapter or a book based on personalised reading speed.
Worry-Free Archive automatically backs up the users' Kindle books to the cloud, so that they never need to worry about losing their books.
Kindle for Samsung is available in SA from the Samsung apps store.
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