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Originally Posted by John F
Where did you hear "their announcement". It seems like the mis-information started snow balling from goodereader?
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GoodEReader definitely jumped to conclusions and spread misleading information. Still, Amazon's messaging on this should have been clearer.
When you send a MOBI file to your Kindle using email Amazon returns an email containing the statement:
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Compatible formats now include EPUB (.epub), which you can send to your library using your Send to Kindle email address.
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It is fairly clear from the context that "compatible formats" means compatible with emailing. However they really should have mentioned what happens after you send it to your library. By leaving the conversion process unstated they left room for wrong assumptions.
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We’ll also be adding EPUB support to the free Kindle app for iOS and Android devices and the Send to Kindle desktop app for PC and Mac.
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"adding EPUB support to the free Kindle app" is imprecise and misleading. Those apps support delivery of books from Amazon (not as EPUB), sideloading (no EPUB allowed), and send-to-kindle (the actual change.)
Amazon's documentation indicates that RTF and DOCX are supported file types, however it has long been known that these are actually handled by conversion. They should have made it clear that EPUB falls into the same category as these.