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July 13th, 2009

‘Two million users as 12 million book downloads later: Stanza turns 1’

By David Rothman

I wish the Stanza e-reader for the iPhone hadn’t ended up at Amazon, given the Jeff Bezo’s current fondness for DRM, proprietary formats and other devilish things.

That said, I wish the Lecycle crew luck just the same. Here’s an Amazon news release on Stanza’s first birthday—on its amazing journey. TeleRead was among the first to discover Stanza. Let’s just hope that Amazon will let Stanza continues as a gateway to public domain books from sources such as Project Gutenberg, and new content from places such as Smashwords. Allowing Stanza to continue its ePub focus wouldn’t hurt, either.

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