Seeking to strengthen its presence on the iPhone and iPod Touch, Amazon has acquired Lexcycle, the company behind Stanza, a popular free e-book application for the iPhone, according to Lexcycle’s blog.
Stanza allows users to browse a library of around 100,000 books and periodicals for the iPhone, many of them in the ePub format — a widely accepted standard for e-books that Amazon has yet to support with its proprietary Kindle platform.
Overlords
“I, for one, welcome our new Amazonian overlords”
Blog posts about Stanza purchase
Kindle Vs Stanza? Amazon buys Stanza and kills the contest
Makes point that this acquisition rips the heart out of the open ebook movement.