Comments on: Amazon to push Mobipocket e-book format?

By: David Rothman

David Rothman — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 00:50:43 +0000

> I can’t wait for an actual standard in this space! True! Suggestions welcomed re OpenReader. - DR

By: Jonathan Greene

Jonathan Greene — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:28:52 +0000

damn… I like eReader and am pretty invested there. Having to use another reader is just too annoying. I can’t wait for an actual standard in this space!

By: David Rothman

David Rothman — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 19:47:40 +0000

> I’d be curious to see current unit sales figures for Mobi vs. Palm Reader.

Same here, Mike. News doesn’t look good for Palm, but you never know. Meanwhile I wonder if Amazon will dump Microsoft Reader format. My guess is that it’ll keep both that and Adobe.

David

By: Michael Ward

Michael Ward — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 19:06:03 +0000

LSI distributes Palm Reader (aka eReader), but Amazon has never picked up books in this format from them. (Powells.com -does- sell them, picked up from LSI.)

Content Reserve dropped Palm a little while back, in favor of MobiPocket. Something to do with the terms the new Palm Digital management was asking.

I’d be curious to see current unit sales figures for Mobi vs. Palm Reader.