Amazon had earlier announced support for ePub on its Kindle e-reader devices. This had come as a huge surprise considering that the company had staunchly been opposing what otherwise happens to be the ...

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It’s almost hard to remember, but when it came out, iBooks could read only EPUB files, not PDFs, and the only way to load them was by syncing with iTunes. Over a number of releases of both iBooks and ...

Why it matters: For years, Kindle users have been unable to buy books published in the ePub format and read them on their e-Reader --- at least not without manually converting them to an ...

Last last month, a post from the relatively obscure Good e-Reader claimed that Amazon would finally allow the Kindle to read EPUB files. The story was picked up by all the major tech sites, and for a ...

NEW YORK — In the world of e-books, you largely have a choice between Amazon’s Kindle and everyone else. Amazon.com distributes its e-books in a proprietary format that isn’t compatible with other ...

When you are coming from behind, embracing openness is always a good strategy. That is exactly what Sony is doing with its electronic book reader, which is up against the Amazon Kindle. The key to the ...

NEW YORK — In the world of e-books, you largely have a choice between Amazon’s Kindle and everyone else. Amazon.com distributes its e-books in a proprietary format that isn’t compatible with other ...