8/20/2023 0 Comments Comixology and kindle![]() You’ll still be able to read MOBI files that you’ve added to your Kindle, but you just won’t be able to wirelessly send MOBI files to Kindles anymore using Amazon Kindle Personal Documents Service.Ģ022. To be clear, they aren’t dropping support for MOBI format on Kindles. However, one of the nice things about sideloaded MOBI books is the book covers were shown, whereas other sideloaded formats just show a generic cover. Books in MOBI format don’t have access some of the newer features like custom fonts and the ability to control font boldness. While it’s good to hear Amazon is finally adding support for DRM-free ePub files to the Kindle Personal Documents Service, they also announced that they are going to be dropping support for the older MOBI format. Last week Amazon allowed Kindle users to send ePub files to Kindles by email. Amazon adds EPUB and drops MOBI support on Send to Kindle apps Amazon is the latest company to suspend digital transactions on Android, in recent weeks Audible and Barnes and Noble ceased selling audiobooks and ebooks in their apps.Ģ022. Considering Amazon is the largest ebook seller in the world, the paid commission to Google would be staggering. This has happened because Google has now mandated that all apps use their own billing system and will take a 30% cut out of each transaction. When trying to buy digital books, a new screen is displayed, letting customers know that in order to remain compliment with Google policy changes, buying ebooks is no longer supported. You can no longer buy Kindle Books on AndroidĪmazon has disabled the ability to buy ebooks in the Kindle app for Android. It’s never good to see older devices losing functionality, but even the 5th generation Kindle is ten years old now so it’s not surprising that Amazon doesn’t want to keep maintaining a non-touchscreen store for these decade-old Kindles anymore.Ģ022. You just can’t shop directly from these Kindles anymore, but you can still send ebooks to them and read on them the same as before. Now the store is going to be disabled on older non-touchscreen WiFi models as well, like the once-popular Kindle 3. This already happened last year to some Kindles like the first gen model when the 3G towers were shut down. Basically, if your Kindle doesn’t have a touchscreen then it will no longer have access to the Kindle store. The Kindle store is no longer available on older Kindles, including the Kindle DX, the Kindle 2, the Kindle 3 (also called Kindle Keyboard), the Kindle 4 and the Kindle 5. Kindle Store is no longer available on older Kindles This will ensure that your book will have proper typography and be able to access X-Ray, dictionaries, and Wordwise.Ģ022. This is the first time that Amazon has ever supported the EPUB format to deliver to your Kindle account, however when you use the Send to Kindle system, converts the EPUB to the AZW3 format before delivering them to your device. The service is now live and you can use the Send to Kindle aps for PC or MAC, the Chrome Extension, Kindle for Android and via email. Amazon's Send to Kindle for EPUB is now liveĪmazon announced a couple of months ago that Send to Kindle will support EPUB files. Amazon added support for emailing EPUBs back in April, and their iOS and Android Kindle apps have supported sending EPUBs since August, and now finally the PC and Mac apps support sending EPUBs as well.Ģ022. They don’t actually send the EPUB file to Kindles, but it gets converted to Kindle format in the process, and they only support DRM-free EPUBs, of course. Send to Kindle app for PC and Mac now supports EPUBĪmazon has finally updated its Send to Kindle apps for Windows and Mac computers to add support for sending EPUB files to Kindle ereaders and Kindle reading apps. Just because you can download your purchased ebooks now doesn’t guarantee you’ll be able to download them in ten or twenty years.Ģ022. Twenty years from now, how will ebooks be treated in both respects? With digital media, things are constantly changing. Changing formats and enhancing DRM schemes is going to be the norm moving forward in the ebook world. It’s not a good sign for ebook buyers and some view it as just another way for Amazon to impose control over content purchased from them. The reason the Kindle for PC and Mac applications have to be updated is because they’ve made it so newer ebooks can only be downloaded in Amazon’s KFX format instead of Amazon’s older Kindle formats. Kindle for PC update is required to download newer eBooksĪmazon is now requiring Kindle for PC and Mac users to install an update in order to download and read any new Kindle ebooks published as of January 3rd, 2023.
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