Amazon updates Kindle for iOS with support for comics, book search

14.06.2012
Amazon on Thursday released updates to the Kindle app for iOS, along with the . The updates add in support for children's books, comics, and graphic novels.

With children's books, artwork can appear in full color, with fixed layouts and--in some cases--Kindle Text Pop-Up, which magnifies the text for easier reading.

The new Kindle Panel View makes reading comics and graphic novels simpler and more immersive; in our early exploration using the updated Kindle app on a new iPad, even tiny comic book next was easy to read. Tap on an individual comic panel for a magnified view.

Amazon says that more than 1000 children's and comic book titles are available in the Kindle Store.

The Web app gets updated with the same abilities. Cloud Reader, you may recall, affords Amazon the ability to work around Apple's restrictions preventing the native Kindle app from linking directly to the Kindle Store.