EPUB is supposed to be
the e-book standard file format, but by refusing to adopt it for the Kindle, Amazon is taking one step towards stopping a piracy ecosystem developing for e-books.
Not exact matches
The inclusion of the industry
standard EPUB
format and Adobes PDF
file format of free
e-books, not forgetting the old favorites like.
The Nook reads the more -
standard ePub
format (along with PDFs and text
files), and can borrow
e-books from some libraries using the Overdrive system.
«So long as DRM stays part of the plot, every Kindle reader sold, every Kindle app installed and every Kindle title purchased will strengthen Amazon's hand... if you could buy an
e-book in a
standard format that, like an MP3 music
file, would be playable on current and imaginable future hardware, it wouldn't matter which store sold it.
EPUB is the industry
standard e-book file format.
This freely available
e-book standard supports more hardware
e-book readers than any other
file format.
There are a bunch of
file formats for
e-books, but the two you really need are EPUB (the industry
standard) and Kindle (the proprietary
format used by Amazon).
Unlike some other
e-book formats,
standard PDF
files do not allow the text in the book to be resized or to change fonts or to spill onto different pages than originally intended.
so now we're making a version of the «
standard»
e-book file -
format for ibooks, and one for kobo, and one for the nook, and one for sony reader, and how in the world can this be a «
standard»?