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Mobipocket.com
Type	Public
Founded	2000
Headquarters	Paris
Key people	Thierry Brethes, Founder ; Nathalie Ting, Founder ; Martin Görner , CEO
Industry	Software
Products	Mobipocket Reader
Slogan	What do you want to read today?

Mobipocket.com SA is a French company incorporated in March 2000 which produces the Mobipocket Reader, a universal reader for PDAs. The Mobipocket software package is freely downloadable from this web site and consists of publishing and reading tools dedicated to PDA and Smartphone devices (Symbian, Windows Mobile, Palm OS, BlackBerry and Psion). Mobipocket.com was bought by Amazon.com in 2005. [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 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.

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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 arbitrary categories, auto-scroll, rotate by 90°/180°, bookmarks, self made 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 (thus you cannot use them) but the information one is reading 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, OEB , CHM , 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.

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.