Oxford University Press, the world leader in Reference content, announced that it is providing secure distribution of some of its major reference titles in MobiPocket Reader ebook format. This includes both monolingual and bilingual English dictionaries as well as major reference dictionaries, such as Oxford dictionaries of Biology, Chemistry, Computing, Internet, Accounting, Business, and many others.

Electronic books in the MobiPocket format can be read on all popular handheld devices including Palm operating systems, Pocket PC and Symbian operating systems, as well as Personal Computers. This is a tremendous advantage for publishers and customers as a single MobiPocket formatted ebook file can be read on PCs and every major handheld device.

"Oxford University Press is pleased to be able to provide useful products for even more customers using this state of the art ebook technology for handhelds and PCs" said Rob Scriven, Editorial Director for Dictionaries. "One of our goals is to make our reference books portable, easy to buy and easy to use. We believe there is a good future for Oxford reference books using ebook technology, especially for mobile platforms. Mobipocket has fantastic reader software for A-Z content. Handheld quick reference obviously has lots of useful practical applications across education, travel, and professional use ."

"Oxford University Press’s choice of Mobipocket as their standard ebook format for all handhelds and PCs will significantly change the existing offering of titles in the ebook space. This is a major shift from general literature ebooks to high-value reference content, instantly accessible everywhere using any PDA/mobile device " stated M. Thierry Brethes, CEO of MobiPocket. "The conversion work to Open-ebook was done in less than one month, thanks to OUP’s investment into the standard XML format".

"Mobipocket’s goal for the coming year is to become the leader in ebook software for reference content on PDAs"

Oxford University Press is offering over 35 major reference titles on both Mobipocket and Oxford web sites.

For more information, please contact Claire Pemberton on 01865 267911, email pembertc@oup.co.uk, or go to: www.mobipocket.com

MobiPocket is the only software and technology company, which enables the reading and secured distribution of electronic text, across all existing OS platforms. MobiPocket is also engaged in the online distribution of E-books and of E-content software through its own website. The Company, founded in March 2000, is headquartered in Paris, France. Unique features may include wireless Internet access to content, sub-pixel rendering to enhance the reading experience, or supporting multimedia features, as well as unique compression and indexing technologies, enabling reference content.