Comments on: Amazon Acquires Stanza http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2009/04/28/amazon-acquires-stanza/ What's Hot & What's Cooking in Scholarly Publishing - from the Society for Scholarly Publishing Thu, 16 Feb 2012 03:31:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: thorn http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2009/04/28/amazon-acquires-stanza/#comment-2992 Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:33:14 +0000 http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/?p=3888#comment-2992 ..or amazon could do to stanza what corel did after it acquired jasc paintshop pro. jasc was 99 bucks and did everything one might want an image editor to do. the paintshop pro that i knew and loved: r.i.p.

it would be a real shame if amazon killed stanza. unless i am mistaken, its desktop client is presently the only program that will convert pdf’s to kindle format, if one is a mac user.

]]> By: David Crotty http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2009/04/28/amazon-acquires-stanza/#comment-2988 Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:25:37 +0000 http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/?p=3888#comment-2988 Hopefully Amazon will incorporate some of the Stanza interface into their weak Kindle iPhone app.

The obvious worry here is that by eliminating the competition, we’ll either end up with a monopoly where Amazon rules the e-books world, or their severely DRM-limited products will fail to catch on, squashing the nascent e-books market.

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