Future support?
Mon, 04/27/2009 - 13:44 — Anonymous
Hi,
So I'm wondering where the purchase of LEXCYCLE by Amazon is going to lead Stanza. I mean lets be perfectly honest here, there's very little to gain by Amazon from leaving Stanza alone. So, I see this going one of two ways:
1.) Is Amazon going to roll the Stanza application (desktop & iPhone) into their existing Kindle infrastructure... ie. take the desktop app, the ePub technology and toss the rest away or
2.) Is Stanza going to gain the ability to read the .azw format and purchase books OTA from Amazon?
I'm a Mac user by the way, and an iPhone Stanza user. I own a recently purchased Sony reader, now wondering if I would have been just better off sticking with Amazon.
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Stanza & Mobipocket
Now that Amazon have bought Lexcycle and therefore Stanza does this mean that there may be a chance that we will finally get to read all those books we bought from MobiPocket that we haven't been able to read since got our iPhones?
Free books?
Will classics from Project Gutenberg and Feedbooks still be available? I'm concerned that Amazon will put a stop to free books because they won't consider it profitable.
Scared.
I'm scared to death that Amazon is gonna destroy Stanza or lock it down so much it'll be useless.
Lexcycle will continue to
Lexcycle will continue to operate as a standalone offering.
I'm not quite as confident
Given the fact that Amazon owns Mobipocket, and has *at best* not given them the resources to write an iPhone version of their reader (at worst, they ordered Mobipocket not to release one that was already written in order to protect the Kindle market) I'm not optimistic about the future of Stanza. I'd love to be proven wrong, but at this point the best I'm realistically hoping for is that the Kindle app is significantly improved (better typography and UI, particularly).