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Old 05-08-2025, 11:27 PM   #925
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Originally Posted by jpetts99 View Post
Really, according to an ex-colleague. I was in a different division when that happened.

Kovid can weigh in if I'm wrong.
No, actually I have never received any offers from Amazon. I have had contact with Amazon only once, and that was somebody from their ebooks division about something technical in the MOBI format, cant recall who anymore.

I was in negotiations with SONY to buy calibre in the very early days, I even visited their HQ in California (I was at Caltech at the time), but nothing came of it. Buying open source software isn't really something must companies grok.

There was one other buyout offer but not from a company anyone is likely to have heard of, again in the early days.
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