Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Kindle 2.0 on the way, Amazon dropping rival e-book formats

Amazon has offered yet another indication that it wants to control how books are sold and read; the company announced that it will stop selling e-books in the Microsoft Reader and Adobe formats. Instead, Amazon will only sell e-books in its proprietary Kindle and Mobipocket formats. Fortunately, it seems that many devices are compatible with the Mobipocket format but not Mac and Linux devices.

A day later, the company announced a release date for its second version of the Kindle.

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