We’re all going to have to learn about Mobipocket sooner or later, and since I’ve referenced them a couple times, I’ll provide a link to the whole backstory here.
Visit Mobipocket.com
Amazon bought Mobipocket in March 2005. The company produces a catchall reader for PDA’s called Mobipocket Reader software. The package is free and provides digital publishing and reading tools for a wide range of devices: PDA, Smartphones, cellular phones. Also supports e-Book Readers: Symbian, Windows Mobile, Palm OS, Java ME, BlackBerry, Psion, Kindle and iLiad. Oh, there’s also a version of the reader for your PC.
As mentioned before iPhone (& iPod) is still waiting for its official Mobipocket Reader for the very suspicious reasons mentioned here.
Also, Mobipocket.com offers a huge selection of eBooks for download. Their main pages lists eBooks in Mobipocket format from the getting there price of $7.20 to the unrealistic $24.99. I’m not even going to name that book. What’s the point? $24.99 for an eBook is too much.
However, they do offer a huge selection, and are primed to give Amazon a run for their money. What’s that? Amazon owns them? Of course it does. Oh, well there’s one reason the prices are high. No fair competition to drive them down. Come on people, this technology is ours! There’s no justification for these prices. We have to be careful we don’t buy into this mindset, yah?
If it’s too much don’t buy it. Google around. It will be out there at a reasonable price somewhere.
