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Mobipocket SA is a French company incorporated in March 2000 which
produces Mobipocket Reader software, a universal reader for PDAs. The Mobipocket
software package is free and consists of various publishing and
reading tools for PDA, Smartphones, cellular phones and e-book
devices (Symbian, Windows Mobile, Palm OS, Java ME, BlackBerry, Psion, Kindle and iLiad). An alpha release of
the java-based version of the mobipocket reader was made available
for cellphones on June 30, 2008.[1] There
is also a reader for desktop computers running Microsoft
Windows, which also works with computers running Mac OS X and Linux using WINE [2].
Mobipocket.com was bought by Amazon.com in 2005.[3]
Amazon's acquisition was believed to be a result of Adobe Systems's
announcement that it would no longer sell its eBook packaging and
serving software.[4]
The software provides:
- A personalized press review using the Mobipocket Web Companion,
an automated content extraction tool dedicated to press
articles.
- eBooks, including for each
book a biography of the writer. Each downloaded eBook is registered
in the My Mobipocket personal virtual library, from which a user
has access to any previously downloaded eBook.
- A secure reading system, as a result of the encryption of
eBooks (using DRM) and
unique signature, a timestamp added to each book at
the time of purchase.
Mobipocket on a
Psion Series 5
PDA (with further information)
Depending on the device, different functions are available.
Those are usually managing of books and their metadata, assigning books to arbitrary
categories, auto-scroll, rotate by 90°/180°, bookmarks, custom hyperlinks within one or
between different documents, highlighting, comments and by
sketches. When transferring documents to other device types,
functions that are not supported on the device will be ignored but
the information one is reading will not be altered or deleted.
As noted above, there is a reader for personal
computers that works with either encrypted or unencrypted
Mobipocket books. It also allows import of different file formats,
among them HTML, PDF, OEB , CHM ,
TXT and Microsoft Office formats.
Unencrypted Mobipocket books can be read on the Amazon Kindle
natively. By using third-party programs such as Lexcycle
Stanza, Calibre or
Okular, unencrypted Mobipocket
books can also be read on Mac
OS X, the iPhone and Linux.
A user can thus create documents in the Mobipocket-format (.PRC)[5] and use
personal comments, bookmarks and so on on all devices supporting
those features.
Note that there is no way to print or export the text itself nor
the personalized additions[6] without
manually selecting, copying and pasting them piece by piece.
According to Mobipocket support a print function will be released
soon; an export feature is planned but not yet in an advanced stage
as consultation with publishers continues.
See also
- Comparison of e-book
formats: an overview of various e-book formats
- TomeRaider: an
alternative ebook reader software with a large free ebook base
including Wikipedia:TomeRaider database.
- Amazon
Kindle: Amazon's eBook device which can read DRM-free
Mobipocket files
- BeBook: eBook reader by Endless Ideas BV,
upgrade in September 2008 added capability to read Mobipocket
files
- Cybook Gen3:
Bookeen eBook device which can read DRM-free and DRM Mobipocket
files
- Irex iLiad: Irex' eBook
device which natively supports Mobipocket files, and synchronizes
with the desktop Mobipocket reader
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