Thread: Amazon no longer sells ePubs in favour of Kindle eBooks
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Old 08-25-2012, 12:32 PM   #25
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Originally Posted by DaleDe View Post
Actually it is Kindle that doesn't care to support industry standard formats. They have a proprietary format that is unique to them. Amazon doesn't seem to care about alienating the rest of the entire eBook industry by requiring publishers to use their special format which until the KF8 was archaic.

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And given the bugs in the 4.1 and 5.1 firmware version for the eink Kindles, KF8 is not a reader friendly format. Amazon needs to fix the line-height bug or the reading experience with KF8 eBooks will be sub-optimal.
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