Online retail giant Amazon has recently released a new `Whispercast' tool for Kindle, with the key objective of facilitating schools and businesses in managing their Kindle-devices fleet like personal computers.

Amazon's Whispercast for Kindle is essentially a mass-deployment and management mechanism for e-books - with apps to follow soon - on Kindle, as well as Kindle apps for schools and businesses.

The Whispercast tool chiefly paves the way for the purchase and sharing out of Kindle titles among students and employees, with the advantage of remote controlling not only the device passwords and wireless settings, but also the decision to purchase particular titles.

With Whispercast allowing the management of fleets of Kindles just like the PCs, its launch will apparently lead to the deployment of hundreds, or probably even thousands, of Kindle devices by schools and businesses --- more so as the tool works not only with Amazon's own Kindle hardware, but also with the free apps available for iOS, Android, Windows and Mac.

The potential use of Whispercast for Kindle will further be enhanced in the near future, with Amazon disclosing that the new tool will soon boast the capability of handling distribution and management of Kindle Fire apps.

Describing Whispercast for Kindle as a free, scalable solution for school and business administrators," Kindle VP Dave Limp said that the tool will allow the organizations to "centrally manage thousands of Kindles and wirelessly distribute Kindle books as well as their own documents to their users."