On the heels of Barnes & Nobles’ announcement of their new Nook device, Amazon steps up their game and announces Kindle for PC.

Read Kindle Books on Your Computer:

Get the best reading experience available on your PC. No Kindle required

Access your Kindle books even if you don’t have your Kindle with you

Automatically synchronizes your last page read and annotations between devices with Whispersync

Create bookmarks and view the annotations you created on your Kindle

For us Apple lovers, Amazon has claimed to be ready to release a Mac version in the next few months. Exciting stuff!