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Mobipocket SA is a French

France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
company incorporated in March 2000 which produces Mobipocket Reader software, a universal reader for PDAs

Personal digital assistant

A personal digital assistant is a handheld computer, also known as a palmtop computer. Newer PDAs also have both color screens and audio capabilities, enabling them to be used as mobile phones, , web browsers, or portable media players....
. The Mobipocket software package is free and consists of various publishing and reading tools for PDA, Smartphones, cellular phones and e-book devices (Symbian, Windows Mobile

Windows Mobile

Windows Mobile is a compact operating system combined with a suite of basic applications for mobile devices based on the Microsoft Windows API application programming interface....
, Palm OS

Palm OS

Palm OS is an embedded operating system operating system initially developed by U.S. Robotics Corp.-owned Palm, Inc. for personal digital assistants in 1996....
, Java ME

Java Platform, Micro Edition

In computing, the Java Platform, Micro Edition or Java ME is a specification of a subset of the Java platform aimed at providing a certified collection of Java Application Programming Interfaces for the development of software for tiny, small and resource-constrained devices....
, BlackBerry

BlackBerry

The BlackBerry is a wireless handheld device introduced in 1999 as a two-way pager. In 2002, the more commonly known smartphone BlackBerry was released, which supports push e-mail, mobile telephone, text messaging, internet faxing, web browsing and other wireless information services as well as a multi-touch interface....
, Psion, Kindle and iLiad

ILiad

The iLiad is an electronic handheld device, or e-book device, which can be used for document reading and editing. Like the Sony Reader or Amazon Kindle, the iLiad makes use of an electronic paper display....
). An alpha release

Development stage

A software release is the distribution of an initial or upgraded Software versioning of a computer software product. The software engineering and company doing the work decide on how to distribute the program or system, or changes to that program or system....
of the java-based version of the mobipocket reader was made available for cellphones on June 30, 2008.

Mobipocket.com was bought by Amazon.com in 2005.

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Mobipocket SA is a French

France

Personal digital assistant

Windows Mobile

Windows Mobile is a compact operating system combined with a suite of basic applications for mobile devices based on the Microsoft Windows API application programming interface....
, Palm OS

Palm OS

Palm OS is an embedded operating system operating system initially developed by U.S. Robotics Corp.-owned Palm, Inc. for personal digital assistants in 1996....
, Java ME

Java Platform, Micro Edition

BlackBerry

ILiad

Development stage

Adobe

Adobe is a natural building material made from sand, clay, and water, with some kind of fibrous or organic material , which is shaped into bricks using frames and dried in the sun....
's announcement that it would no longer sell its eBook packaging and serving software.

The software provides:

A personalized press review using the Mobipocket Web Companion, an automated content extraction tool dedicated to press articles.
eBook
E-book

An e-book is the digital media equivalent of a conventional printed book. Such documents are usually read on personal computers, or on dedicated computer hardware devices known as e-book readers or e-book devices....
s, including for each book a biography of the writer. 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
Digital rights management

Digital rights management refers to access control technologies used by publishers, copyright holders, and hardware manufacturers to limit usage of digital media or devices....
) and unique signature, a timestamp
Trusted timestamping

Trusted timestamping is the process of computer security keeping track of the creation and modification time of a document. Security here means that no one?not even the owner of the document?should be able to change it once it has been recorded provided that the timestamper's integrity is never compromised....
added to each book at the time of purchase.

Depending on the device, different functions are available. Those are usually managing of books and their metadata

Metadata

Metadata is "data about other data", of any sort in any media. An item of metadata may describe an individual datum, or content item, or a collection of data including multiple content items and hierarchical levels, for example a database schema....
, assigning books to arbitrary categories, auto-scroll, rotate by 90°/180°, bookmarks, custom hyperlink

Hyperlink

In computing, a hyperlink, usually shortened to link, is a directly followable reference within a hypertext document.The area from which the hyperlink can be activated is called its anchor; its target is what the link points to, which may be another location within the same page or document, another page or document, or a...
s 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 but the information one is reading will not be altered or deleted.

There is a reader software version for personal computer

Personal computer

A personal computer is any general-purpose computer whose original sales price, size, and capabilities make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end user, with no intervening computer operator....
s running on Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of software operating systems and graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows in November 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces ....
. It allows you to import different file formats, among them HTML

HTML

HTML, an Acronym and initialism of HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for Web pages. It provides a means to describe the structure of text-based information in a document?by denoting certain text as links, headings, paragraphs, lists, and so on?and to supplement that text with interactive forms, embedded '...
, PDF, OEB , CHM

CHM

CHM :* Computer History Museum* Conservative Holiness Movement* Clearing House MechanismCHM may refer to:* The IATA code for the Tnte....
, TXT

TXT

TXT or txt may refer to:* Text messaging on a phone using letters and symbols.* .txt, a filename extension for text files* SMS language or txt, an Internet slang language commonly used on short message service phones...
and Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office is a popular set of interrelated desktop applications, servers and services. Microsoft Office is collectively referred to as an office suite, for the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems....
formats. Unencrypted Mobipocket books can be read on Mac OS X

Mac OS X

Mac OS X is a line of computer operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc., and since 2002 has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems....
and the iPhone

IPhone

The iPhone is an internet-connected multimedia smartphone designed and marketed by Apple Inc. with a flush multi-touch screen and a minimal hardware interface....
using Lexcycle Stanza

Lexcycle Stanza

Lexcycle Stanza is a freeware program for reading Ebook, digital newspapers, and other digital publications. The software supports the eBook formats Open eBook, Microsoft Reader, Amazon Kindle, Mobipocket, and PalmDoc, as well as general document formats HTML, Portable Document Format, Microsoft Word, and Rich Text Format....
, a third-party program.

A user can thus create documents in the Mobipocket-format (.PRC

PRC (Palm OS)

PRC is a container format for code databases in Palm OS, Garnet OS and Access Linux Platform. Its structure is similar to PDB databases. Usually, a PRC file is a flat representation of a Palm OS application that is stored as forked database on the PDA....
) and use personal comments, bookmarks and so on on all devices supporting those features.

Note that there is no way to print or export the text itself nor the personalized additions without manually selecting, copying and pasting them piece by piece. 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 continues.

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Mobipocket

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