Thread: Epub coming to Amazon and the Kindle!!!
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Old 05-21-2011, 10:03 AM   #78
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
The Kindle hardware is fully capably of handling ePub. It's just a matter of the software also doing so.
Indeed, there is an alternate Kindle firmware available called "Duokan" which reads ePubs just fine.

However, we have no evidence WHATSOEVER that Amazon are planning to start selling or supporting ePub books. All that's happened is that Amazon are permitting publishers to submit books in ePub format; they may well be intending to simply convert them to the usual Mobi format for sale.
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