'Kindle' for the PC

I am starting to believe that Amazon has no one driving their flagship product.

The latest post on the Kindle blog:

The Kindle team is excited to announce that soon, you'll be able to read more than 360,000 (and counting!) Kindle books on your computer. Our free application for your Windows PC is coming--no Kindle required. Even when you don't have your Kindle with you, you can access your Kindle books, and Whispersync automatically synchronizes your last page read and annotations between devices. Find out more at: http://www.amazon.com/kindleforpc. Stay tuned.

Sigh.

Amazon created a document format. It worked on the PC long before the first Kindle was complete. Why is it coming to the PC now? Uhm, I'm guessing Amazon finally realized that people who are going to pirate books aren't going to wait for Amazon to make content available.

I've mentioned this before - maybe it's a case of publishers getting less stupid, but not offering books on the PC is just giving away revenue.

It's the internet, if it's not for sale, it's free. You'd think Amazon.com would have been a .com long enough to learn something about how the internet works.

Also, it's not 'Kindle' coming to the PC, it's a digital book format. A Kindle is a physical device, a book is a piece of software. That's why Amazon insists on selling kindles and licensing books.

Again, you'd think a .com would know enough about computers to tell the difference between hardware and software.

For being annoyingly stupid - kindle fail!