The current format is actually only a slight variation of the first one developed, almost twenty years ago, by the French company. It is a relic from Amazon’s 2005 acquisition of Mobipocket, whose technology has been instrumental in the development of the Kindle ecosystem and its success. mobi is an old file format which doesn’t support the newest Kindle features for documents. MOBI files will no longer be supported in the “Sent to Kindle” feature, since the. Note that, however, the EPUB files must be DRM-Free, so they can’t have any encryption.
But as of the end of this year, this step will no longer be necessary: they will simply need to email the EPUB file to their device or app and Amazon will take care of converting it to a Kindle-compatible format. Therefore, for users who want to read an EPUB file on their Kindle or on the Kindle app, the only solution, for now, is to convert the EPUB file to one of the accepted formats. It still does not support EPUB, even though in recent years this format has become the standard for the international digital publishing ecosystem. The “Send to Kindle” app supports different formats: DOC/DOCX, RTF, PDF, HTML and of course MOBI and AZW.
“Send to Kindle”is a free service that allows users to send documents and e-books via an authorized email address to their Kindle Library to read them on their Kindle devices or Kindle apps, both desktop and mobile (iOS and Android). This decision marks a new step towards the EPUB format and a gradual move away from the proprietary MOBI format. Now Amazon has announced that, beginning late 2022, Kindle users will be able to directly send EPUB files to their Kindle library, without any prior conversion to MOBI or AZW, the proprietary formats still used by Amazon for their e-books. The decision was announced by Amazon as the first move “to simplify the e-book publication process” on its platform and it became effective as of June 28th, 2021. A year ago we brought you the news that Kindle would stop ingesting the MOBI format for liquid-layout ebooks, as well as the derived PRC and AZK formats, in the Kindle Direct Publishing program ( for publishers and self-publishers).
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