Amazon Kindle App for iOS Gains New Magazine Format, Support for Returning Kindle Unlimited Books

[MacRumors]

Amazon's Kindle app for iOS was today updated to version 6.6, introducing a handful of useful new features to those who read Amazon books on their iPhones and iPads.

The updated version of the app features a new mobile-friendly format that's designed for magazines, and this new option comes shortly after rumors suggesting Apple is going to debut a subscription news service that would include magazines.

For background, Apple recently purchased Texture, a service that provides unlimited access to more than 200 digital magazines for $9.99 per month.

Amazon says that its new magazine-reading format is available for popular titles like Food Network, Cosmopolitan, Life & Style, Us Weekly, and 15 others to start with.

Today's update also allows Prime Reading and Kindle Unlimited books to be returned using the Kindle for iOS app. A book can be returned by long pressing on a book cover from the bookshelf interface and choosing the "Return book" option.

Kindle Unlimited is a subscription service that costs $9.99 per month and provides unlimited access to more than a million books, audiobooks, and magazines. Prime Reading, meanwhile, is a service that offers a smaller selection of content for free to Amazon Prime subscribers.

Along with the new options for Kindle Unlimited and the magazine format, the new Kindle app update also includes a setting to allow you to enable the highlight menu so it displays whenever text is highlighted.

The Kindle app for iOS can be downloaded from the App Store for free. [Direct Link]

Article Link: Amazon Kindle App for iOS Gains New Magazine Format, Support for Returning Kindle Unlimited Books

 

[Mobster1983]

Finally they let us return books from the app. Always annoying having to go through the process of finding the books on the website to return.

 

[5105973]

Finally they let us return books from the app. Always annoying having to go through the process of finding the books on the website to return.

I wish I could buy books from the app like I can on the Android version of the app. But then Apple would demand a cut as an IAP and Amazon didn’t want to go that route. So I have to exit out and go to the web site or the Amazon App and look for the next book in a series there.

 

[Dennison]

Someone report the Kindle app on iOS for sending advertisements through push notifications, violating Apple’s App Store guidelines.

 

[belvdr]

Someone report the Kindle app on iOS for sending advertisements through push notifications, violating Apple’s App Store guidelines.

You can report it but what rule is violated? I could not find anything on Apple’s site indicating this was not allowed.

 

[confirmed]

Someone report the Kindle app on iOS for sending advertisements through push notifications, violating Apple’s App Store guidelines.

You can disable notifications for recommendations. You can also turn off all Goodreads notifications if you like.

 

[kazmac]

I wish you could quit a book or comic without having to close the app and then reopen it on the iPad. Hopefully the new update will resolve this whenever it is available for the iPad.