![]() Although AZW files are based on MOBI, they contain better compression than MOBI files and are usable on Amazon Kindles or a device with Kindle software. EPUB also has the potential to include interactivity, accessible image, video, or audio elements. AZW files first rolled out onto Kindle devices in 2007 it’s based on the MOBI file format that Amazon bought in 2005. EPUB files normally include an index page for navigation, and accessibility features to adjust text size or allow for text-to-speech. The EPUB format comprises three open standards – one defining content markup, one describing the ebook structure, and one packaging all the files into a compressed format. The EPUB standard is now maintained by a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) working group. Amazon announced in 2022 that new Kindle models would also support EPUB files. 1 Kindles now support the EPUB file format used by many other e-book readers. EPUB files can be viewed on a wide range of e-readers and digital reading apps, including NOOK, Apple Books, Okular and Calibre. Kindle devices and apps are designed to use Amazon's e-book formats: AZW that is based on Mobipocket in fourth generation and later Kindles, AZW3, also called KF8 and in seventh generation and later Kindles, KFX. The format was developed in the mid-late 2000s by the International Digital Publishing Forum and is an alternative to formats like AZW, developed for the Kindle. EPUB is short for ‘electronic publication’. EPUB is the standard open-source format for ebooks.
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