That is, unless Apple cuts a better deal with them to get their major apps on the store. If they do, they'll be giving Apple a 30 percent cut of their profits. What remains to be seen is if other major developers like Microsoft and Adobe will also add their apps to the Mac App Store. And given that the Mac App Store will ship on all future Macs, it's practically a no-brainer for Amazon to make the choice to put their Kindle app - and the nearly one million Kindle e-books - right in front of Mac users. Of course, being a free app, it costs Amazon virtually nothing to distribute it through the Mac App Store.
The significance of it showing up on the Mac App Store - and so soon - is it signals that major players are taking the Mac App Store seriously. Kindle for Mac has been available for a while, and it's always been a free download. Amazon's Kindle for Mac software has landed on the Mac App Store and currently sits at the fourth-most downloaded free app. Kindle for Mac was one of the apps we'd hoped to see when the Mac App Store launched, and it looks like we didn't have to wait long.
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