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Mobipocket.com was bought by Amazon.com in 2005. 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. 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. 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, Android devices and Linux. A user can thus create documents in the Mobipocket-format (.PRC) 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 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. |
