Type of Article: MacNews News Article

iKit (http://www.ikit.com) has released the US$S40 iPad Leather Folio Case. It’s available in black and gray and comes with a screen protector and cleaning kit.

Made of genuine cow leather, the Leather Portfolio’s slim padded design gives you access to all your functions and protects the device. It features an interior and exterior embossed design with secure access.

Amazon.com has announced “Kindle for Mac,” a free application that lets readers around the world enjoy Kindle books on their Macs.

The U.S. Kindle Store currently offers over 450,000 books, including New Releases and 102 of 111 New York Times Bestsellers. Kindle books can now be read on the Kindle, Kindle DX, iPhone, iPod touch, BlackBerry, PC and Mac, and, soon, the iPad. Customers in over 100 countries can go to http://www.amazon.com/kindleformac to download the Kindle for Mac application for free today.

iPad pre-orders are now averaging 10,000 per day, according to Daniel Tello, a Venezuelan blogger-analyst who writes about Apple using the name “Deagol” (http://aaplmodel.blogspot.com/).

Tello has been tracking order numbers submitted by volunteers since March 12 at 8:30 a.m. (Eastern) when Apple began taking pre-orders for the iPad. By his calculations, which are based on a precise count of order numbers and an estimate of how many of them were non-iPad orders, Apple passed the 180,000 unit mark on Wednesday.

China Mobile hopes to offer both the iPad and a version of the iPhone that supports China’s homegrown 3G mobile standard, comments by China Mobile’s top executive showed on Thursday.

As reported by “Computerworld” (http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9172598/China_Mobile_wants_iPad_and_Chinese_3G_for_Apple_s_iPhone?source=rss_news), China Mobile is “interested in the iPad” and has told Apple it hopes to see a version of the iPhone that works with the government-backed 3G standard it is using, Wang Jianzhou, CEO and chairman of China Mobile Limited, said at a news conference.