Sentences with phrase «bought mobipocket»
As reported by Bill Rosenblatt, «Amazon.com Acquires Mobipocket ``, Amazon bought Mobipocket in 2005.
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When Amazon bought Mobipocket, it stopped carrying all those other formats and stopped using Lightning Source as its delivery service for ebooks.
(The fact that publishers adopted ePub only after Amazon bought Mobipocket is another discussion entirely.)
It was what Amazon did buying Mobipocket pre-Kindle, and it worked.
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Mobipocket Two years before launching its first hardware device — the Kindle — Amazon started making investments in the e-reader's underlying technology, which included buying this Paris - based software company that developed an e-file format for physical books.
A company called Mobipocket used to dominate the mobile book reading software space on regular old phones and PDAs; but they were bought by Amazon which has its own Kindle software for iPhones now.
I have a ton of mobipocket books, and if I am not going to be able to read my mobipocket books on my ebook reader, I'm not going to buy the kindle or buy kindle books, that's for sure.
I started reading eBooks on my Nokia phone some years ago when I got an introductory offer for 2 Michael Connelly Novels (Harry Bosch Series) from Mobipocket (subsequently bought by Amazon in 2005).
Amazon bought a little company called Mobipocket quite a few years ago so that it could siphon off the technology and use it to create the Kindle.
You can also buy it from Mobipocket's website, but I suggest you purchase the DRM - free version from Amazon.
Mobi is the format developed by Mobipocket, and ebook retailer that Amazon bought several years ago.
Otherwise it wouldn't make sense for Google to keep Kindle out as they could easily attract millions of current Kindle owners who already buy and appreciate eBooks by supporting DRM - free Mobipocket format.
The Mobipocket format was originally created by Mobipocket SA, a French company, in 2000, which was then bought over by Amazon in 2005.
If you buy an eReader or Mobipocket, there is no limitation on devices you can read an ebook on so long as you enter in the correct unlock code.