La nouvelle vient de tomber par un communiqué de Lexcycle. La société qui développe l’application Stanza vient d’être rachetée par Amazon.com. Quelle nouvelle! Pour l’instant, on ne sait pas encore quelles seront les conséquences de ce rachat sur l’application phare pour la lecture d’ebook sur iPhone, même si les concepteurs de l’application précisent que cela ne va changer en rien la forme actuelle de l’application, ni l’expérience de lecture qu’elle propose.

Voici le communiqué :

Lexcycle has been acquired by Amazon.com!
Mon, 04/27/2009 – 13:00 — marc

We are very excited to announce that Lexcycle has been acquired by Amazon.com!

It has been an amazing experience to see Stanza grow out of our brainstormed ideas into one of the most downloaded iPhone applications. Throughout this period we have attempted to listen to and innovate for our customers to provide a great ebook reading experience.

We are not planning any changes in the Stanza application or user experience as a result of the acquisition. Customers will still be able to browse, buy, and read ebooks from our many content partners. We look forward to offering future products and services that we hope will resonate with our passionate readers.

We are excited to join forces with a company that has innovated on behalf of readers for over a decade and is a pioneer in ebooks. Like Amazon, we believe there is a lot of innovation ahead for ebooks and we could not think of a better company to join during this exciting time.

As always, we encourage people to ask questions or provide feedback through our forums at http://forum.lexcycle.com or directly to us at info@lexcycle.com.

Best,
Marc, Neelan and Abe

C’est une nouvelle assez inattendue qui risque d’avoir d’importantes répercutions sur le marché de la lecture sur mobile. Dirigeons-nous vers un futur monopole? L’avenir nous le dira.
Lorsque que je lancerai, dans quelques minutes, Stanza sur mon iPhone pour reprendre ma lecture, ce sera comme si j’avais un Kindle, non?