Thread: Kindle to utilize epub format in late 2022
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Old 05-01-2022, 02:47 PM   #27
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Originally Posted by Quoth View Post
Everyone apart from Amazon offers epub already. I've never seen anywhere that only offered mobi. If there is it's tiny volume. PD all offer both, commercial only offer epub variations (Apple, Barnes & Noble, Tolino, Kobo) and/or PDF (Google, Scribd). Smashwords one of the few offering multiple commercial ebook formats.
I agree that this mostly affects public domain providers and small stores like Smashwords and Baen. The short term issue is that these providers have been telling their Kindle customers to use the MOBI format and changing that will cause some confusion.

With this change I expect most of them to drop MOBI as an offered format and that will be a good thing for everyone.

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Originally Posted by rashkae View Post
I think rejecting epub was just easier than having your tech support explain to people why some epubs work and others don't.
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Originally Posted by graycyn View Post
That's possible, but they are still going to face that now.
I don't believe that Amazon will need to face it at all. When customers ask why their EPUB is rejected they will just say that it isn't Kindle compatible and refer them back to whoever provided it. They are not going to discuss DRM removal and EPUB editing with customers.

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I doubt Amazon uses the KindleGen as supplied for PC.
Amazon still uses Kindlegen internally, the Linux version not Windows. The MOBI and KF8 formats it produces have long been frozen so there is no reason to develop a new tool to produce them.

I sent myself an EPUB via email just now and when the KF8 file came back to my Kindle the internal metadata showed that it was converted using Kindlegen for Linux version 2.9 build 0721-dedaf5.

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We don't know yet what difference existing epub to kindle via KDP and propsed send-to-kindle will be. Whatever Amazon does with covers or .epub renamed to .png and emailed today may not be the same as the "new" service.
True. But we also have no reason to expect changes in what happens when using the send-to-kindle app given that the new emailing of EPUBs is already active and no changes were made because of it.

Amazon has not promised any new functionality for personal documents beyond allowing EPUBs to be submitted.
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