Lexcycle Announces Support for Adobe eBooks in Stanza Reader

Thu, 02/12/2009 - 20:29 — neelan

NEW YORK, Feb. 11, 2009 — Lexcycle, the company behind the award-winning Stanza electronic book reader for the iPhone and iPod Touch, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Adobe(R) to license PDF and EPUB rendering technologies as well as support for Adobe’s eBook content protection technology. The integrated technology will allow Stanza users to enjoy eBooks sold or loaned by any retailer or library, who distribute eBooks protected with Adobe Content Server 4.

With over 1.3 million users spanning 60 countries, Stanza is the most popular eBook reader for the Apple iPhone. Since its launch in July 2008, Stanza has supported the EPUB format, the International Digital Publishing Forum’s open XML-based standard format for reflowable digital books and publications. To date, Stanza users have downloaded over 3 million eBooks from a selection of over 100,000, half of which are available for free. The license agreement will significantly expand the selection of available titles to Stanza customers to include a wide variety of commercially published eBooks from major publishers.

“Stanza has become the most popular electronic book reader for the iPhone and iPod Touch by providing a great user experience, from the discovery and acquisition of content to the fine-tuned reading experience,” said Neelan Choksi, Chief Operating Officer of Lexcycle. “Licensing Adobe’s content protection technology will allow Stanza users to have a wider selection of eBooks, periodicals, and other content from around the world, secure in the knowledge that the content they purchase is based on open standards.”

“Stanza is a great iPhone application and the addition of Adobe PDF and EPUB with Adobe Content Server compatibility will make Stanza even more compelling,” said Bill McCoy, general manager, Digital Publishing Business at Adobe. “This collaboration is a significant step forward for Adobe’s overall strategy to enable publishers to deliver engaging, high-fidelity reading experiences across a wide range of mobile devices.”

Starting next quarter, Stanza will be able to read EPUB and PDF files secured with Adobe’s content protection technology from Adobe Content Server 4. The EPUB format has gained significant traction among major trade book publishers and industry groups such as the Association of American Publishers (AAP). With the upgrade, Stanza users will be able to purchase or borrow Adobe eBooks from the hundreds of retailers, academic and public libraries who distribute Adobe eBooks worldwide.

Availability
Stanza for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch is available as a free download from the iTunes App Store or from http://www.lexcycle.com. Stanza with support for Adobe DRM will be released in 2Q09.

About Lexcycle and Stanza
Lexcycle is a private company that strives to bring the digital reading revolution to readers around the world. With over 1.3 million users in 60 countries, Lexcycle Stanza is the most popular electronic book reader for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. To learn more, visit http://www.lexcycle.com.

Comments

Sat, 01/16/2010 - 04:40 — berman

Adobe's "PDF rendering

Adobe's "PDF rendering technology" will presumably be the one page at a time reflow. I hope Stanza gets rid of the page boundary limitations, but perhaps there will be more full screens per "page" on the iPhone than on the PRS-505
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Berman, prohibited job interview.

Sun, 11/22/2009 - 23:43 — jhonplayer

I am completely new to adobe

I am completely new to adobe photoshop so please tell me which ebook is good for me please help keen to learn adobe photoshop.

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Fri, 11/13/2009 - 10:33 — akamaxbuz

Stanza App Banned in iTunes Romania

I just discovered Stanza and as a publication designer based in New York City, I look forward to using it with my web and print clients. I was just talking about Stanza to a designer I know in Romania who has an iPod Touch. When he tried to get Stanza, the iTunes store said that iTunes Store Romania does not carry this app. I forget the exact wording. Maybe he is the one who used the word "banned." But the Kindle app was also not available.
I tried a Google search but could not find anything about this. Do you know why Stanza is not available there? I wonder about other countries. You say here that Stanza is available in 60 countries.

Fri, 09/18/2009 - 15:19 — neelan

Clarification

At this point in time, we are not supporting the Adobe DRM solution. This decision will be evaluated on a regular basis as we move forward.

We will continue to support DRM-free EPUB formatted books as well as DRM-free and DRM-enabled eReader (PDB) formatted books.

Neelan Choksi
Lexcycle

Thu, 08/13/2009 - 06:33 — Chaschas

This is misleading in my opinion

"Starting next quarter, Stanza will be able to read EPUB and PDF files secured with Adobe’s content protection technology from Adobe Content Server 4."
That quarter is long gone and this did not happen. With all due respect, I believe this page needs to carry a notice telling readers that Stanza does not read epub drm protected books because if you search for those terms on google you get this page high up in the results. People may be buying epub books only to find they cannot read them. I nearly did.