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Mobipocket

French software company (2000–2016)

Mobipocket SA was a French company incorporated in March 2000 that created the.mobi e-book file format and produced the Mobipocket Reader software for mobile phones, personal digital assistants (PDA) and desktop operating systems. The Mobipocket software package was free and consisted of various publishing and reading tools for PDAs, smartphones, mobile phones, the e-readers Kindle and iLiad, and applications on devices using Symbian, Windows, Palm OS, Java ME and Psion.2 It is part of Amazon.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

2000Founded1

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Mobipocket SA was a French company incorporated in March 2000 that created the.mobi e-book file format and produced the Mobipocket Reader software for mobile phones, personal digital assistants (PDA) and desktop operating systems.2

The story

Amazon.com bought Mobipocket.com in 2005.

An alpha release of the Java-based version of the Mobipocket reader became available for cellphones on June 30, 2008. There is also a reader for desktop computers running Microsoft Windows, which also works with computers running Mac OS X or Linux using Wine.

Since Amazon's acquisition of Mobipocket, software support, user support, and platform growth ended. In December 2011, Amazon reportedly officially notified book publishers that it was ending support for Mobipocket. The status of Mobipocket digital rights management (DRM) content previously purchased by users was unclear since no other eBook-reader supported its proprietary DRM method.

On October 31, 2016, Amazon permanently shut down the Mobipocket website and servers.

From Wikipedia’s article on Mobipocket, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

Subsidiaries and ownership

Former owners and parents

From Wikidata.1

Timeline

  1. Oct 31, 2016Dissolved Dissolved1
  2. 2005Acquired Acquired by Amazon1
  3. 2000Founded Founded1

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