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Mobipocket.com
Type	Public
Founded	2000
Headquarters	Paris
Key people	Thierry Brethes, Founder & CEO
Industry	Software
Products	Mobipocket Reader
Slogan	…and you're done

Mobipocket.com SA is a French company incorporated in March 2000 which produces the Mobipocket Reader, an universal reader for PDAs: the Mobipocket software package is freely downloadable from this web site, and consists in publishing and reading tools dedicated to PDA and Smartphone devices (Symbian, Windows CE, Palm OS and Psion). Mobipocket.com was recently bought by Amazon.com. [1].

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's life. Each download ebook is registered in the My Mobipocket personal virtual library, from which a user keeps access to any already downloaded ebook
A secure reading system, thanks to the encryption of ebooks and unique signature, a timestamp added to each book at the time of purchase.

Mobipocket on a P910i

Mobipocket on a Psion Serie 5 PDA (with further information)

Depending on the device, different functions are available. Those are usually managing of books and their metadata, assigning books to many arbitrary categories, auto-scroll, rotate by 90°/180°, bookmarks, self made hyperlinks within one or between different documents, highlighting, comments and by stylus writable empty pages. When transferring documents to other device types, the there unknown functions will be ignored, thus you cannot use them, but the information will not be altered or deleted.

There is a reader software version for personal computers running on Microsoft Windows. It allows you to import different file formats, among them HTML, PDF, TXT and Microsoft Office formats. This way, you can create documents in the Mobipocket-format .PRC on your own and use your comments, bookmarks etc. on all your devices - as long as they support those features.

Please note that there is no way to print or export the text itself nor your self made annotations without manually selecting, copying and pasting them piece of piece. Thus a further use of content and annotations is not yet possible in an efficient way. 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 are still going on.