It solely took about 15 years, however Amazon’s Kindle will lastly assist the ePub format. First noticed by Good E-Reader, Amazon up to date its Kindle part with the information that the Send to Kindle perform will convert ePub information to a format that may be opened on the e-reader. The replace is scheduled to happen in late 2022.
It’s a change that — at first look — appears reasonably minor, however in reality solves a lingering drawback within the e book trade. Amazon’s Kindle Store is a serious e book vendor and ePub is probably the most widely-used e book format. But up till now, Kindle gadgets couldn’t learn the ePub format. For Kindle homeowners who’ve needed to grapple with manually changing their e book library to a extra Amazon-friendly format with an app like Calibre, this will likely be a welcome change.
But one other upcoming change is that Kindle will lastly lose the power to assist MOBI, an older French file format that was Amazon’s proprietary e book format for some time. Amazon acquired the corporate Mobipocket in 2005, and subsequently rebranded MOBI to AZW. If you already personal ebooks in both format in your Kindle, you possibly can nonetheless entry them. The replace solely applies to new ebooks.