16 years ago 2000 headquarters paris le de france france key people thierry brethes founder ; nathalie ting founder ; martin g rner ceo products mobipocket reader parent amazon.com website www.mobipocket.com mobipocket sa is a french company incorporated in march 2000 that created the . mobi e book file format and produces the mobipocket reader software for mobile phones personal digital assistants pda and desktop operating systems . the mobipocket software package is free and consists of various publishing and reading tools for pdas smartphones mobile phones the e readers kindle and iliad and applications on devices using symbian windows palm os java me and psion . contents 1 history 2 design 3 implementations 4 see also 5 references 6 external links history edit mobipocket.com was bought by amazon.com in 2005 . 1 amazon s acquisition was believed to be a result of adobe systems announcement that it would no longer sell its ebook packaging and serving software . 2 an alpha release of the java based version of the mobipocket reader was made available for cellphones on june 30 2008 . 3 there is also a reader for desktop computers running microsoft windows which also works with computers running mac os x and linux using wine . 4 it has been widely reported that since amazon s acquisition of mobipocket software support user support and platform growth was ended . in december 2011 it was reported that amazon officially notified the book publishers that it was ending support for mobipocket . 5 the status of mobipocket digital rights management drm content previously purchased by users continues to be unclear since no other ebook reader supports its proprietary drm method . design edit 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 . 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 . mobipocket on a psion series 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 or 180 bookmarks custom 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 but the information one is reading will not be altered or deleted . each book has one or two language attribute s ; in the later case it is meant to be a dictionary . as a typical example reading a book in fr language a word may be selected and asked to translate with fr en dictionary provided the appropriate dictionary is installed on the reader device . dictionaries are always unidirectional so fr en dictionary can not be used in reverse a separate en fr dictionary is needed for that . implementations edit there is a reader for personal computers that works with either encrypted or unencrypted mobipocket books . unencrypted mobipocket books can be read on the amazon kindle natively as well as in amazon kindle programs on mac os x ios devices android devices windows and windows phone devices . by using third party programs such as lexcycle stanza calibre or okular unencrypted mobipocket books can also be read on mac os x ios android devices and linux . third party tools exist to decrypt encrypted mobipocket books allowing them to be read using software that does not support encryption . 6 a user can thus create documents in the mobipocket format . mobi 7 which is the same as the palm os format . prc 8 and use personal comments bookmarks and more on all devices supporting those features . additionally amazon offers a free program called kindlegen that can convert or create documents in the mobipocket format 9 as of 2012 update there is no way to print or export the text of an encrypted or secured mobipocket file nor the personalized additions using any third party applications . 10 mobipocket has not released a version for android . owners of android devices can download amazon s kindle application from the android app store 11 which can read . mobi files though no official mobipocket reader for the android platform has been released . long term plans for the mobipocket platform are in question in the wake of amazon s announcement of the kindle format 8 12 which moves in the direction of html5 and css3 . as one of the most popular e readers 13 the kindle has great sway in the popularity of e reader formats . see also edit comparison of e book formats list of e book readers microsoft reader tomeraider references edit franklin sells interest in company retires shares . philadelphia business journal . 2005 03 31 . retrieved 2011 05 05 . amazon.com acquires mobipocket . drm watch . retrieved 2014 11 01 . mobipocket alpha program ebook reader for java phones . mobipocket.com . 2008 08 22 . retrieved 2011 05 05 . winehq mobipocket reader . appdb.winehq.org . retrieved 2011 05 05 . hoffelder nate 2011 11 02 . rip mobipocket 2000 2011 . the digital reader . retrieved 2012 07 22 . dedrm plugin for calibre the simplest option for removing drm from most ebooks . retrieved 2012 07 22 . mobileread wiki mobi . wiki.mobileread.com . 2011 04 22 . retrieved 2011 05 05 . prc . mobileread wiki . 11 february 2014 . retrieved 28 october 2015 . kindle publishing programs . amazon . kindlegen is a command line tool used to build ebooks that can be sold through amazon s kindle platform . this tool is best for publishers and individuals who are familiar with html and want to convert their html xhtml xml opf idpf format or epub source into a kindle book . mbp reader export mobipocket notes . idleloop s site . may 2012 . retrieved 2012 07 22 . this package reads a . mbp file which ... would contain annotations corrections drawings and marks made by the user on the book content . libre gpl 3 command line tool written in perl . kindle . android apps on google play . retrieved 2012 07 22 . kindle format 8 . amazon . retrieved 2012 07 22 . newman jared 2011 12 15 . actual kindle sales figures more than 3 million sold so far . today pcworld . retrieved 2012 07 22 . external links edit official website v t e amazon.com people current jeff bezos tony hsieh christopher north werner vogels gregg zehr former rick dalzell brian mcbride david risher ram shriram tom szkutak brian valentine facilities amazon tower i amazon tower ii products and services websites a9.com abebooks alexa internet amapedia askville bookfinder cdnow china curse the book depository dash diapers.com digital photography review endless.com fresh goodreads internet movie database 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