Within the past few days, Amazon and Microsoft announced that they have signed a patent cross-license agreement which gives each company access to some of the other's intellectual property portfolio. The financial details of the deal have not been released, but it is expected that Amazon paid Microsoft a certain amount to avoid potential litigation involving a software program that might infringe on Microsoft's intellectual property. Although this deal covers a broad range of technology, one major piece of technology that Microsoft will have access to is Amazon's popular e-book device, Kindle.
This comes at a time when Amazon has recently announced an expansion of the Kindle product. Author's and publishers from around the world now have the ability to upload books in Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian. This move doubled the number of languages that were available on Kindle. Before the expansion, publishers could only make available books in English, German, and French.
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