Amazon adding Twitter, Facebook to Kindle e-reader (AP)

SAN FRANCISCO – Amazon.com Inc.’s Kindle e-reader is effort admittance to Facebook and Twitter, along with individual another enhancements, as conception of a code update existence dispatched wirelessly to the devices.

In a bill on Amazon’s site, the consort says the newborn code module permit users deal aggregation passages on their Twitter and Facebook accounts. The update module also permit grouping variety books and documents into collections and hair their Kindle with a password. There also module be large type options and the knowledge to ascent in on PDF documents.

The update comes presently after Apple free its iPad tablet, which could be the Kindle’s large competition. Both crapper wirelessly download books.

Amazon said it has free the code to whatever Kindle owners and expects to beam it to every users in New May.