eBook Converter

Mobipocket SA is a French company incorporated in March 2000 which produces Mobipocket Reader software, a universal reader for PDAs. 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, Palm OS, Java ME, BlackBerry, Psion, Kindle and iLiad). An alpha release of the java-based version of the mobipocket reader was made available for cellphones on June 30, 2008.There is also a reader for desktop computers running Microsoft Windows, but there is no support for other desktop platforms such as Mac OS X and Linux.

Mobipocket.com was bought by Amazon.com in 2005. Amazon’s acquisition was believed to be a result of Adobe Systems’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.
• 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.