krischik wrote:

When I changed my signature I was hoping to be of service. But the truth is 80% of the "Post: 1" miss the message and the few which do only come back to tell that they never got an answer. It is so horrible it is unbelievable. I the last 3 month things here have become unbearable. Martin

It's probably because of the name of the thread "Payment/Purchase issues" in "Customer service" that matches the main concern of people that come to the forum at first.

By the way, how do people know of the Message to the Amazon Overlords thread from the forum homepage ? Perhaps making it more visible can help people posting to it ...

metaraph wrote:

By the way, how do people know of the Message to the Amazon Overlords thread from the forum homepage ? Perhaps making it more visible can help people posting to it ...

I answered that already. Ok for the benefit of those who did not follow the other thread: I am a volunteer and neither a moderator (who could make the thread sticky) nor an employee with one of the mobi_* user ids. No employe has posted for a month! Even SPAM is not moderated any more. We are all alone here.

I have two notebooks, 1 netbook and 2 Symbian Mobile Phones - do I really want another device - NO:!:

I purchased a couple of Dictionaries for my Nokia 6110 and a few books - now I decide to upgrade to a Nokia 5800 and find out that there isn't a Mobireader for it and most likely no plan to create one.

My Mobile phone weighs 109 grams and can take photos and videos, play MP3s and movies, send / receive e-mail, remotely control my computers using VNC, guide me to wherever I want to go (GPS), read PDF files, read, modify and create word, excel and powerpoint files, tell me the weather, surf the internet, tell the time, calculator & converter, watch TV, MySQL database, Apache and PHP server, Webcam and even as a strobe light (if your into disco) - or you can make it a flashlight too! Not to mention that it also makes phone and video calls and text messaging. It also has twenty plus games and the capability to hold a 16GB MicroSD card (only got 8GB at the moment - but since I have 3 of them - can't see any point in upgrading to 16 - yet). Looks like I left out that it also has Skype, Barcode reader and FTP facilities along with Bluetooth and wireless networking - there are probably heaps of other programmes that I haven't yet put on the phone and if and when I need them - will search for them.

Can someone please explain why I would want an additional device:?:

Looks like I will just have to go back to reading PDF's - the only reason I used Mobireader in the first place is because PDF's were difficult to navigate - since my 5800 screen is about 40% larger I have found that PDF's are readable. I already have 100's of documents in PDF format and as and when I wanted them on my phone I was converting them to Mobireader files - no longer need to convert them - but I will miss the functionality of being able to look up a word from one e-book in one of my dictionaries.

I am curious 'Amazon' has your 'Kindle' taken off

BillyAsh wrote:

Can someone please explain why I would want an additional device:?:

The eInk display (see also elecronic paper) is the killer feature here. But you don't need Amazon for that - I got a Sony PRS 505.

BillyAsh wrote:

I am curious 'Amazon' has your 'Kindle' taken off

In the USA: Yes - market leader (for eInk devices). Anywhere else in the World: No - not ever on sale.

I was just checking the download page for Symbian devices:
http://www.mobipocket.com/en/DownloadSoft/application.asp?device=SymbianOs

Hoping that a miracle had happened and there was a mobireader version for my touchscreen Nokia 5800.

When I noticed this load of garbage:

"We support them all
Mobipocket eBook Reader runs on all Symbian smartphones: "


DOES Mobipocket support them all does Mobipocket run on all Symbian smartphones NO NO NO - it might depend on your idea of what running is - it certainly loads on my Nokia 5800 but I can't navigate anywhere so am stuck on one page - that's it - which would be fine if I only had one page documents

I also sent an invitation to Fictionwise.com to develop their version to read Mobipocket on their e-reader and make it compatible with my Nokia 5800 (or all touchscreens - assuming there are more) - they are now owned by Barnes and Noble - maybe they would like to get the customers Amazon is going to lose

BillyAsh wrote:

When I noticed this load of garbage: "We support them all Mobipocket eBook Reader runs on all Symbian smartphones: "

Well, I guess it was no garbage when they wrote it. It just never got updated to the current state of affairs. I think this thread shows it best (it get's better to the end). This web side is running on auto-pilot for several month now. The forum is not monitored any more and Customer service is (miss-)handled by Amazon (India ?). New book appear but they are probably entered by distributors.

Pretty much a company in coma.

BillyAsh wrote:

DOES Mobipocket support them all

Support department has been shut down and of August.

BillyAsh wrote:

I also sent an invitation to Fictionwise.com to develop their version to read Mobipocket on their e-reader and make it compatible with my Nokia 5800 (or all touchscreens - assuming there are more) - they are now owned by Barnes and Noble - maybe they would like to get the customers Amazon is going to lose.

Sadly B&N won't be our saviour - they too use there own file format and DRM and not the (new) ePUB standard. Currently it's Amazon (Mobipocket/Kindle) vs. B&N (eReader) vs. The Rest of the Word (ePUB). And it's literally The Rest of the World as Amazon and B&N battle it out on there own in the USA.

The purchase of Mobipocket coupled with pushing competing devices out of the market by pricing and other anti-competitive practices needs to be addressed by the SEC and FTC now.

There should be a fair market for e-ink and e-reader devices. The only way to accomplish that is to either have No DRM ( which is unlikely ) or have a DRM format that can be supported on all devices. Amazon realizes that "content is king" if they don't make their content available on anyone else's devices, they will own both the content market, and the device market. This mirrors what Apple did with the iPod and ITunes DRM.

Controlling the content and access rights to the DRM software itself is a conflict of interest. Using this they are able to de-value other devices and force everyone to purchase their device.

I own an Irex Iliad. There is no longer any point in me purchasing Mobipocket content as the books I wish to purchase are twice as expensive as hard cover books.

SpinozaQ wrote:

The purchase of Mobipocket coupled with pushing competing devices out of the market by pricing and other anti-competitive practices needs to be addressed by the SEC and FTC now.

Which might not help as Mobipocket is Fresh based and Amazons questionable practices are taking place in the USA .

SpinozaQ wrote:

Amazon realizes that "content is king" if they don't make their content available on anyone else's devices, they will own both the content market, and the device market. This mirrors what Apple did with the iPod and ITunes DRM.

Only that Apple has given up on the strategy and sells in what is effectively MP4 - a standard format - and without DRM.

SpinozaQ wrote:

Controlling the content and access rights to the DRM software itself is a conflict of interest. Using this they are able to de-value other devices and force everyone to purchase their device.

If you can buy them: Kindle (Books and Reader) are only available in the USA . This is why I think there strategy is going to fail ultimately .

Apart from that Mobipocket and Kindle DRM are dead easy to remove.

Martin

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I use mobipocket Reader for more then one year on my Nokia N78 and i read more than
100 eBooks!!!
Now i have bought a Nokia 5800 and there is no version for S60 5th and i am very angry
why mobipocket.com is so ignorant not to develope Mobipocket Reader for the new
Symbian S60 5th. The Nokia 5800 mobile phone was sold over 3 million times!!!
Is this not a market for mobipocket.com?????

Is this the only place now that a publisher can post books for distribution? It is now all run via Amazon, and they are insisting that I have a US address and US bank account... What? Is this whole thing for US citizens only? That's a real crock if so.