In some respects, it's easy to understand Amazon's position. Now, finally, Amazon is listening - again, sort of.Įarly user reactions to Amazon's announcement have not been favorable, but the company continues to show absolutely zero interest in genuinely supporting the epub format. Even so, it has proved to be intensely frustrating for Kindle users who have complained loudly to Amazon, but to no avail. The results were sometimes not great, but it got the job done. Kindle users have gotten by for the past fifteen years by using a program called Calibre, which has a somewhat convoluted routine that converts epub files into the Kindle's native file format. Instead, Amazon will issue an update to Kindles that will allow them to convert epub files to a proprietary format that can be read by their readers. We say sort of, and use "supporting" in quotes because although it would be easy for the company to simply enable their ubiquitous readers to support epub, that's not actually what the company has planned. Kindle will soon be "supporting" the epub format! If that has been a sticking point for you, there's good news - sort of.
The company has managed to avoid supporting the epub format for more than fifteen years. Of course, epub is the format that just about everybody else on the planet other than Amazon sells e-books in. Kindles are amazing but they don't support the epub file format. Do you own an Amazon Kindle? If so, you're probably already aware of one of the major frustrations with the product.
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