Thread: Kindle to utilize epub format in late 2022
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Old 05-08-2022, 09:09 PM   #101
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Originally Posted by hleo12 View Post
Unless Amazon is planning to make their future generations of Kindles drop mobi and azw, I also don't see why they needed to stop accepting mobi/azw files for conversion.

They still plan to support mobi/azw if you already have those books/documents in your library, so I don't see why it would be a cost cutting issue.

I'm more inclined to believe newer generations of Kindles won't read mobi/azw.
My opinion is the reason that Amazon is dropping mobi for the email to device function is the same reason that they dropped relowable mobi as a usable format for KDP. By today's standards, reflowable mobi is a primitive format with very limited capabilities. It's much easier to take a newer format ebook file and generate a decent looking mobi file than it is to take a mobi file and generate a decent looking KF8/KFX/etc. file.
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