Amazon Kindle e-books will soon be compatible with the ePub format. However, they will lose compatibility with the MOBI format.
E-books are quite invisible in the marketplace, but they are popular with many readers, both occasional and regular, due to the many advantages that e-books provide over their paper counterparts. Customers have a wide choice, mainly determined ultimately by the supported file format. A clash of several camps, including Amazon with its Kindles and its own AZW format. The good news, however, is that things will change soon.
Amazon Kindle e-books will soon be compatible with the ePub format
It only took 15 years for Amazon Kindle readers to finally be compatible with the ePub format. It was the Good E-Reader blog that discovered the information. Amazon has updated its Kindle section with the following information: Send to Kindle converts ePub files to a format that can be opened in Amazon eBooks. The update in question should take place before the end of this year.
This change, which at first glance may seem rather minor, will actually solve an old problem in the e-book industry. The Amazon Kindle Store is a major player in the market, with the ePub format currently the most popular. But until today, Kindle devices could not read the ePub format. Kindle owners must manually convert their e-books in this format to a format compatible with their Amazon device using a third-party app such as Caliber. This is a novelty that will undoubtedly be appreciated.
However, they will lose compatibility with the MOBI format.
This will have another consequence. Kindle devices will lose support for MOBI, the old French file format that was the basis of its own format. Amazon bought Mobipocket in 2005, renaming MOBI to AZW. However, if you have e-books in any of these formats on your Kindle, you will still be able to read them. The update will only affect new e-books.