{"id":815,"date":"2009-02-03T09:25:26","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T14:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=815"},"modified":"2009-02-03T09:29:16","modified_gmt":"2009-02-03T14:29:16","slug":"mobipocket-or-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=815","title":{"rendered":"Mobipocket or Amazon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re all going to have to learn about Mobipocket sooner or later, and since I&#8217;ve referenced them a couple times, I&#8217;ll provide a link to the whole backstory <a title=\"Mobipocket Background\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mobipocket\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_818\" style=\"width: 247px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a title=\"MobiPocket\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mobipocket.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-818\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-818\" title=\"eBooks and Mobipocket Reader\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/mobipocketlogo.gif\" alt=\"eBooks and Mobipocket Reader\" width=\"247\" height=\"52\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-818\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visit Mobipocket.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Amazon bought Mobipocket in March 2005. The company produces a catchall reader for PDA&#8217;s called Mobipocket Reader software. The package is free and provides digital publishing and reading tools for\u00c2\u00a0a 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&#8217;s also a version of the reader for your PC.<\/p>\n<p>As mentioned before iPhone (&#038; iPod) is still waiting for its official Mobipocket\u00c2\u00a0Reader for the very suspicious reasons mentioned <a title=\"Amazon versus iPod\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=772\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Mobipocket.com offers a huge selection of eBooks for download. Their main pages lists eBooks in Mobipocket format from the\u00c2\u00a0<em>getting there<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0price of <strong>$7.20<\/strong> to the <em>unrealistic<\/em> <strong>$24.99<\/strong>. I&#8217;m not even going to name that book. What&#8217;s the point?\u00c2\u00a0$24.99 for an eBook is too much.<\/p>\n<p>However, they do offer a huge selection, and are primed to give Amazon a run for their money. <em>What&#8217;s that?<\/em> Amazon owns them? Of course it does. Oh, well there&#8217;s one reason the prices are high. No fair competition to drive them down. Come on people, this technology is ours! There&#8217;s no justification for these prices. We have to be careful we don&#8217;t buy into this mindset, <em>yah<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>If it&#8217;s too much don&#8217;t buy it. Google around. It will be out there at a reasonable price somewhere.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-7668795789683211\";\n\/* ebookrumors1 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"8573945280\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 234;\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=eboorumo-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=B000RI08ES&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re all going to have to learn about Mobipocket sooner or later, and since I&#8217;ve referenced them a couple times, I&#8217;ll provide a link to the whole backstory here. Amazon bought Mobipocket in March 2005. The company produces a catchall reader for PDA&#8217;s called Mobipocket Reader software. 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