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Amazon Kindle/EPUB Rumour…true?

May 20, 2011
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Rumours are abound right now that Amazon is on the verge of providing support for EPUB ebooks on their Kindle eReader. What’s getting peoples tongues wagging is a post from an eReader blog* stating that Amazon is telling publishers to start providing them with titles in the EPUB format. As vague as the details are [...]

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Why Amazon Needs to Support the EPUB eBook Format

August 23, 2010
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In a recent ZDNET article, Jason Perlow described his hesitations for buying one of the new Amazon Kindle’s, which was due to its lack of EPUB support. Many responses to the article noted that the “average user” doesn’t care about the format of an eBook, only for the buying experience. I’m not going to argue [...]

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Can we hope for an Amazon and ePub union?

November 26, 2008
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EPUB formatted books as an industry wide standard is what I, and many others want. But can we achieve this without Amazon’s adoption — at least with ePub support on their Kindle eBook reader. It will certainly be a lot easier to have a standard eBook format if Amazon joined the ePub party. I’m reluctant [...]

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O’Reilly are now selling ePub books!

July 15, 2008

Last month O’Reilly announced that they will be starting an experimental pilot and selling selected titles in an eBook bundle. The bundle includes a PDF, Kindle-compatible Mobipocket and of course an ePub formatted version. Today, O’Reilly announced the availability of 30 eBook titles! The cost of the bundle is a little lower than the paper [...]

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