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e-Book Consolidation? Amazon Acquires Stanza
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
Ben
04/27/2009 at 6:05 pm
i hope this means Amazon will start using epub instead of their own stupid proprietary format.
Jason
04/28/2009 at 10:46 am
Oh no, please dont take away my Stanza reader for the iPhone, love that program.