With Over the Air eBookstore, Mobipocket Customers Can Now Download Their Favorite Books Without Connecting to a Computer.

SEATTLE --(Business Wire)-- Apr. 2, 2008 Mobipocket.com today announced the launch of Mobipocket Reader 6.0 for Blackberries, including Over the Air (OTA) access to tens of thousands of Mobipocket eBooks without the need to connect to a computer. In addition, the new software features a revised user interface, intuitive menus and customer-friendly default settings to create an optimal reading experience for customers on all Blackberry devices.

With Mobipocket's OTA eBookstore, users can access the entire Mobipocket eBook catalog from their Blackberry -- anytime, anywhere. To do this, Mobipocket has integrated the catalog browsing experience into the Mobipocket Reader interface for all Blackberry models. The store accesses data over the phone's data or Wi-fi link in optimized chunks, which makes the browsing fast and responsive. Additionally, books are compressed, typically 200KB - 400KB, which means they download in less than two minutes.

And with nearly 70,000 premium titles, users can find a huge range of books in dozens of categories -- for example, new releases such as A Thousand Splendid Suns from Khaled Hosseini, bestsellers like No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy and hard-to-find titles. As always, customers can download a free sample chapter of any book, find reader reviews, and instantly buy, download or re-download all their titles from their Blackberry.

"The ability to find, discover and buy books, and have instant access to them from anywhere at any time, is the ultimate convenience for Mobipocket customers," said Martin Gorner, CEO of Mobipocket.com. "In addition, we help customers make informed buying decisions by allowing them access to reader reviews and sample downloads. We are really excited to bring our ebook catalog, innovative features and the convenient OTA access to Blackberry users."

In addition, Mobipocket.com has added improvements to Mobipocket Reader 6.0, such as memory card management and PC connectivity. These intuitive features allow downloading to a PC and syncing to a Blackberry's memory card through USB especially convenient for very large books like dictionaries or encyclopedias, which can top 20MB. And with Reader 6.0, the process is now as simple as plugging in the USB cable. Additionally, Mobipocket Reader 6.0 for the desktop will recognize a Blackberry, ask if a user wants to download new books, and automatically send them to the memory card if detected.

As with all Mobipocket innovations, the Over the Air eBookstore technology is designed to be a marketplace enabler and is therefore open to third parties. Any online bookstore can create an OTA store that will appear in Mobipocket Reader 6.0 for Blackberries.

Mobipocket Reader 6.0 is available today for any Blackberry (Curve, Pearl, 8800 and older devices too). It can be downloaded directly from a Blackberry by visiting: http://m.mobipocket.com