- Once touted as the company taking on Amazon’s Kindle by developing an eReader app for the iPhone (Stanza), Lexcycle has now been acquired by well, Amazon. 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 (Bits, NyTimes)
Lexcycle said, “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 e-books from our many content partners.”
The Lexcycle team will join Amazon and help them lay the ground work for owning more platforms such as Android, Palm Pre and Windows Mobile devices. Amazon said Lexcycle is a smart, innovative company, and is looking forward to working with them.