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I thought the response was a bad thing, but if it just means we’re finally accepting epub as a common default that’s pretty great, right?
Does Amazon still strip metadata and cover art from user-provided epubs? If they're still intentionally gimping the implementation, IMO it's a step backwards
Finally! Amazon should have done this long ago. ePub v3 supports everything MOBI does and it has really extensive support across platforms. This is HUGE for people with a big eBook collection.
Previously, you could send a MOBI file to your Kindle email address, and it would be delivered to your Kindle. Now, you have to send them an ePub file, and Amazon will convert it to an AZW3 file (which is structurally very similar to MOBI) and send that to your Kindle.
If you have an ePub file and you want to read it on your Kindle without going through Amazon's servers, you have to convert it to AZW3 (or MOBI) yourself, either using Amazon's Kindle Previewer GUI software (only available for Windows/Mac) or by using a third-party tool like Calibre.
Amazon chose MOBL because it was compatible with the PRC format the old Palm Pilots used. The Palm Pilot was the original eBook reader.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I thought the response was a bad thing, but if it just means we’re finally accepting epub as a common default that’s pretty great, right?
Does Amazon still strip metadata and cover art from user-provided epubs? If they're still intentionally gimping the implementation, IMO it's a step backwards
Does anyone have any idea?
Are they going to ship a software update? Would be a shame if that service doesn't work any more in the future.
This is a welcome move, but I keep trying to figure out how this is going to effect Libby users (which is probably 80% of my kindle usage these day) and I can't find any info at all. Does anyone have any idea?
On Amazon's side, they've been updating their docs to talk about how MOBI is "deprecated", but the only actual change announced is that MOBI support has been removed from the "Send to Kindle" (via email) feature. So if you're not using that, you should be unaffected.