Thread: Epub coming to Amazon and the Kindle!!!
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Old 05-21-2011, 11:05 AM   #83
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Originally Posted by Giggleton View Post
What I'm saying is that it is highly likely that a beta version of the Kindle software did support reading epubs, and then Amazon simply turned off support for them.
Nonsense. The ePub standard was released in October 2007. The Kindle was launched in November 2007. At that time eReader, Microsoft .LIT and Mobipocket were the dominant reflowable ebook formats, and Amazon owned Mobipocket.

Publishers would not have been able to supply ePubs. The tools were not available. You really don't know what you're talking about.
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