Why it issues: For years, Kindle customers have been unable to purchase books printed within the ePub format and browse them on their e-Reader — not less than not with out manually changing them to an Amazon-approved format. That is about to vary later this 12 months, however these hoping for native assist for ePub will probably be upset.
Since the primary era Kindle launched in 2007, the model has change into nearly synonymous with the time period e-Reader. With the unique Kindle and its later incarnations, Amazon additionally pushed its proprietary e-book codecs onto customers — a limitation that persists to at the present time.
Last weekend, a report from Good E-Reader supplied a glimmer of hope that Amazon may quickly begin supporting ePub information. After 15 years of stubbornness in the direction of a format that’s supported and utilized by nearly everybody else within the enterprise of constructing eBooks and e-Readers, a small replace within the official Kindle documentation appeared to point that customers will be capable to use books purchased from competing providers.
However, it seems Amazon is not including native assist for ePub information, however reasonably making it simpler for non-technical customers to transform ePub information right into a Kindle-specific ebook file format. In different phrases, you may quickly be capable to use the Send to Kindle function to do one thing that usually requires a device like Calibre, which is not the most user-friendly software program on the market.
The new performance is predicted to land someday later this 12 months, nevertheless it is not the one change that is coming. Amazon may also drop assist for .mobi and .azw (basically Amazon’s rebranded model of .mobi) information. That means you may nonetheless be capable to entry books utilizing both of these codecs which are already in your Kindle, however you will not be capable to load any new ones utilizing the Send to Kindle function.
