Thread: Epub coming to Amazon and the Kindle!!!
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Old 05-22-2011, 07:52 PM   #100
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Originally Posted by Andrew H. View Post
Kindle couldn't have supported Epub from day one because Epub didn't exist when the Kindle came out.

Amazon didn't come out with the Kindle format to undermine an already existing E-pub. E-Pub was developed by the publishers to undermine Amazon's existing format.
Epub was unvailed in September of 2007 to supercede the Open Book format. The Epub project was merely an update project, the publishers involved had been producing ebooks for some time. Their standard was inferior to Microsoft's .lit books and .pdb books for Palm.

Amazon released their Kindle devices two months later, in November of 2007.
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