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gizmosforgeeks.com - 5/2/2009

Amazon.com acquires Lexcycle, maker of e-book app Stanza

— gizmosforgeeks.com — Amazon.com now owns Lexcycle , maker of iPhone e-book app Stanza. Stanza, which is free, allows users to read more than 100,000 books and newspapers that mostly formatted in open standard format ePub . Hopefully, Amazon does not change its free ... (more) Amazon.com acquires Lexcycle, maker of e-book app Stanza

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electronista.com - 4/27/2009

Amazon buys creator of Stanza iPhone app

— electronista.com — Lexcycle this afternoon said it had been bought out by Amazon. The deal puts the creator of the popular Stanza e-book app for iPhones under the wing of the creator of the Kindle reader but otherwise isn't expanded upon by either company, including ... (more) Amazon buys creator of Stanza iPhone app

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Amazon compra la competencia en iTunes del Kindle para el iPhone
Celularis — ... sería por defecto la principal competencia del Kindle para el iPhone entre los lectores de ebooks dentro de la tienda iTunes. Stanza tiene la gran virtud de contar con muchos acuerdos con editoriales y de haber publicado más de 100.000 libros y publicaciones periódicas en el formato Epub, un estándar ampliamente aceptado para los ebooks, cosa que el Kindle de Amazon todavía no tiene. Vía Business Insider y Blog NYT ...

Amazon snaps up Stanza iPhone app creator
Gadgetell — ... netbooks into impromptu eBook readers (though there is no Linux version, unfortunately).  This move makes it so Amazon technically has a role in four aspects of eBook readers: the retail store, mobile phones (however limited it may be), standalone devices, and desktop readers.  It will be interesting to see how it might eventually try to integrate all of them if at all.  Wishful thinking says maybe we’ll see a more open Kindle eventually, maybe. Read [NY Times] Full Story » | Written by Shawn Ingram for ...