For those readers who want to take advantage of
the WhisperSync capability of their Kindles, I Wish... is still available at Amazon.com for $ 2.99.
He talked about how Amazon developed
the WhisperSync capability so customers could continue reading their e-books (from right where they'd left off) on any device with a Kindle app.
demonstrates Amazon
Whispersync capability between an audiobook and Kindle ebook (beginning at 10:19)
Storytel for some time now has offered a combined service that lets customers read and listen to the same book, presumably like
the Whispersync capability of ebooks in the Kindle system: the audio rendition of a book can pick up where the user stops reading the ebook edition.
I have sometimes waited from purchasing a book from a third party because I wanted the archiving and
whispersync capabilities.
Not exact matches
GameCircle, which includes
capabilities like Achievements, Leaderboards, Friends and
Whispersync for syncing games across devices, and leads to better engagement with games.
Like its sister devices, the Spanish language and Italian language Kindles incorporate
WhisperSync and «Buy Once, Read Anywhere» cloud
capabilities, hold up to 1,400 titles, and have a typical one - month battery life.
It wasn't overly explicit, but Jeff Bezos took a pretty big shot at Apple and the iPad this morning while introducing the new Kindle Fire: he flashed a photo of Apple's white USB cable, called syncing and backup a «broken model,» and went on to emphasize the Fire's
Whispersync cloud storage
capabilities.
A new addition to this stable of concepts is Immersion Reading, coined by Amazon.com in reference to its
Whispersync for Voice the technology and
capabilities of the Kindle Fire HD, as well as supported smartphones and tablets.
Analyst Richard Shim at IDC said that
Whispersync appears to be the kind of technology that will increase distribution
capabilities for book, magazine and newspaper publishers, and that it could be the remedy that publishers, which are suffering huge losses with print publications, have been hoping for.