However, Sony, Barnes & Noble and other e-reader manufacturers have adopted the ePub format, which is ultimately the primary technical standard for the International Digital Publishing Forum.įor this reason, what it means in practice is that, over the past 15 years, if you wanted to put an Epub file on your Kindle e-reader, you would first had to convert typically using software Caliber.Īlthough this (free) software is very effective at doing this task, it is still an additional step for the user. Since then, the company has developed the. Until now, Amazon has only accepted files in the Mobi format, a standard it purchased with the French company mobipocket in 2005.
This function is widely used by those with Kindle because of the convenience it represents for downloaded files (those purchased in the store do not go through this process, because they appear directly).
When you turn on the device, the sent book will appear at the beginning and can be read.
The change is applied to the function “send to Kindle”, or “send to Kindle”, which lets you send the file to an email address assigned by Amazon to users. This is a step towards adopting the standard in digital text that saves users time: no need to convert this type of files to pass them to the device. Amazon Kindle device for reading e-books will receive the Epub format from August this year.
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