Comments on: Has Mobipocket stood up its date with the iPhone? http://ereads.com/2009/01/has-mobipocket-stood-up-easy-date.html Read the latest publishing news and provocative blogs by top commentators in the traditional and digital publishing fields. Mon, 21 May 2012 03:15:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: she http://ereads.com/2009/01/has-mobipocket-stood-up-easy-date.html/comment-page-1#comment-79 she Wed, 13 May 2009 17:36:00 +0000 http://ereadsdev.com/?p=394#comment-79 I really wish Amazon would release a Mobipocket reader. I read a lot and in the past year have purchased over 300 books for my iPhone from Fictionwise.com (mostly in the eReader format). <br /><br />There's a number of books I'd like to be reading and authors I'd like to support but since the books are only available in Mobipocket format. I won't be buying them anytime soon because I can't read them on my iPhone.<br /><br />Fictionwise.com tells me format selection is a decision made by publishers and nothing they can control. Perhaps we should give up on the Mobipocket format idea and be pressuring publishers to release books in an iPhone friendly format instead? I really wish Amazon would release a Mobipocket reader. I read a lot and in the past year have purchased over 300 books for my iPhone from Fictionwise.com (mostly in the eReader format).

There’s a number of books I’d like to be reading and authors I’d like to support but since the books are only available in Mobipocket format. I won’t be buying them anytime soon because I can’t read them on my iPhone.

Fictionwise.com tells me format selection is a decision made by publishers and nothing they can control. Perhaps we should give up on the Mobipocket format idea and be pressuring publishers to release books in an iPhone friendly format instead?

]]> By: eBookGuru http://ereads.com/2009/01/has-mobipocket-stood-up-easy-date.html/comment-page-1#comment-25 eBookGuru Sat, 17 Jan 2009 03:23:00 +0000 http://ereadsdev.com/?p=394#comment-25 Considering that Amazon owns Mobipocket it makes sense not to release the software for an iPhone - they want you to buy a Kindle. <br/><br/>Personally, I know of a couple of other eReading devices that will be stepping up to the plate in the next year of so, and unless Amazon decides to cut Kindles price by 1/3 or more, Amazons brainchild will likely become a thing of the past anyway. <br/><br/>Cheers, <br/>Trevas Considering that Amazon owns Mobipocket it makes sense not to release the software for an iPhone – they want you to buy a Kindle.

Personally, I know of a couple of other eReading devices that will be stepping up to the plate in the next year of so, and unless Amazon decides to cut Kindles price by 1/3 or more, Amazons brainchild will likely become a thing of the past anyway.

Cheers,
Trevas

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