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e-Book Consolidation? Amazon Acquires Stanza

Posted by Warner Crocker | 04/27/2009 | 2 Comments

Consolidation or knocking down a competitor? I don’t know but Amazon as acquired Lexcycle the company that produces the iPhone e-Book reader Stanza. Of course Amazon also has its Kindle reader on the iPhone as well. Don’t look for any changes immediately according to Lexccyle:

We are not planning any changes in the Stanza application or user experience as a result of the acquisition. Customers will still be able to browse, buy, and read ebooks from our many content partners

That said, Stanza’s uses the EPub format which up until now Amazon has not supported on its platform.

Via The New York Times Bits Blog

Tags: amazon kindle, E-books, Lexcycle, Stanza

Category: Mobile, Software

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Warner Crocker is a professional theatre director, producer and playwright and also a Tablet PC enthusiast. He is also a Microsoft MVP for Tablet PCs. Send email to Warner.

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Ben says:

04/27/2009 at 6:05 pm

i hope this means Amazon will start using epub instead of their own stupid proprietary format.

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Jason says:

04/28/2009 at 10:46 am

Oh no, please dont take away my Stanza reader for the iPhone, love that program.

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