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Jeff Bezos recently spoke at a Wired sponsored conference and revealed some interesting information in regards to the Kindle.  One one hand the news was a little surprising; however if you consider the already available iPhone app then it makes a little more sense.

According to Bezos, the content for the Kindle and the actual Kindle are separate businesses and to prove that point Amazon is going to continue offering Kindle content on the iPhone.  But, in addition that content would also be available on “other mobile devices and other computing devices.”  He even went as far as saying that;

“The device team has the job of making the most remarkable purpose-built reading device in the world,” Mr. Bezos said. “We are going to give the device team competition.”

These strong statements were backed up later in the day when the source code for the Kindle was released to the public.  Of course, until some people actually begin to use that source code it will be hard to tell just what may have been removed in terms of full support and DRM.

Either way, it appears to be pretty safe to say that we are going to be seeing the Kindle Store become available on many more devices in the coming future.  Additionally, it looks like we are going to have the possibility of seeing a few Kindle clones hit the market. 

Read [New York Times]
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