Amazon is finally ready to add support for the popular ePub ebook format to the Kindle range.
In an easy-to-miss post on the Kindle Content Help Page, Amazon revealed that ePub support is coming in late 2022.
However, you will not be able to open these ePub files directly on your Amazon Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition. Rather, the Send to Kindle feature will convert such files to a format that Amazon’s e-reader can use.
It brings a partial solution to a long-standing and particularly strange problem. Namely, that the world’s most popular e-reader is incompatible with the world’s most popular e-book format.
In a sense, then, Amazon finally caught up with e-readers delivered by all its competitors, such as Kobo and Barnes & Noble, about 15 years after the launch of the ePub format.
This is not the full pure support that users of these competitors can enjoy, but it will at least prevent Kindle users from having to manually convert ePub files or run third-party applications that do the work for you.
In other news, the aforementioned publication revealed that Amazon will discontinue support for .MOBI and .AZW file formats in late 2022. According to Amazon, “MOBI is an older file format and will not support the latest Kindle features for documents. . ”
You will still be able to open existing files in these formats on your Kindle, but Amazon will no longer allow you to send new files to your Kindle via the Send to Kindle email system.
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