Amazon will finally accept the ePub format for the Kindle, used by much of the digital book market. The novelty starts to take effect at the end of this year and it does not involve the installation of third-party stores in the gadget, but the automatic conversion already used by the company to send a document by e-mail.
Kindle readers, from Amazon and regardless of model, are quite popular and can open a generous amount of formats. The problem is that in the digital book itself, the online retail giant's devices are limited to Mobi and AZW, from the American brand itself. A line added within the support page for sending texts by email suggests that the ePub will finally be accepted by the tool.
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ePub is a format created in 2007 and almost ubiquitous in the digital book reader market in several stores and devices, except for Kindle. Amazon's product can even receive other types of files, but only by sending them via email, where an automatic tool organizes and converts so that the gadget displays all the content correctly.
Kindle now accepts even Word documents
Sending an ePub book to Kindle has always involved a manual conversion and a very complete program for this task is Caliber, but from the end of this year Amazon's own automatic tool will accept this format. new, the list of file types looks like this:
- Microsoft Word (doc e docx)
- Texto (.txt)
- Images (jpg, jpeg, png, bmp and gif)
- Mobi (.azw and .mobi)
- RTF
- HTML (.html e .htm)
Amazon does not detail whether any ePub features may be lost during conversion, which is the case in some cases for Mobi or AZW files. In these cases, newer Kindle readers do not use all of the most current tools that have been released by the company.
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