Amazon launched its app store in China over the weekend of May 4-5 and, at the same time, debuted a Chinese-language website for developers.

The Chinese app store, follows the launch of Cloud Drive in the country last month and roll-out of the Kindle Store in China at the end of 2012.

Though the Kindle Store has been available in China for several months, along with iOS and Android versions of the Kindle app, the device itself is not yet currently available in the country. However the launch of the Amazon app store in China further fuels speculation that Chinese consumers may soon be able to purchase a Kindle within China.
The launch of Amazon's app store puts it in competition in the territory with Apple, which launched its app store in China back in 2010.  

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沪江英语快讯:亚马逊公司本周一宣布已推出中文应用商店,分析人士认为这是在为在中国销售Kindle电子书阅读器和平板电脑硬件做铺路。

去年12月,亚马逊开设了中文版的Kindle图书商店。去年6月,中国广电总局批准了4款Kindle。亚马逊中国前负责人表示,公司希望在2年内引入Kindle。

虽然亚马逊品牌在美国叫得很响,但在中国电子商务市场还属于籍籍无名之辈。它面临着本地竞争对手如淘宝网、360商城和其他网络商城的激烈竞争,淘宝网和360商城均出售电子书产品。

中国市场也已经成熟,本地应用商店很多,其中有些是由手机厂商和电信运营商开设的。亚马逊在推出中文版应用商店的同时还增加了更多本地化的产品,应用商店里列出了新浪微博和视频共享服务的软件,但是没有美国的流行应用如Netflix和Twitter。