Wednesday, June 10, 2015

You have a Kindle? Here are all the e-book formats supported! – Megalab

The Amazon Kindle Store is the largest library in the world of digital ebooks. Unlike other online stores where books are downloaded ebook mainly in only two sizes, PDF and EPUB , in the Amazon Kindle Store we can find different ebook formats such as AZW, AZW3, PRC, Mobi, HTMLZ , and many others.

In this article we want to do some ‘clarity on why there are all these formats and also try to understand what are the main differences between one format to another.

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Let’s start from the format AZW . This is the format developed by Amazon and is certainly the most popular for ebooks available in the Kindle Store. According to rumors, AZW mean “ Amazon Word ” but Amazon has never confirmed or declared the meaning of these initials. AZW format is characterized by a system of DRM that restricts viewing files exclusively on the registered device from which the book was purchased. This can sometimes be a big problem especially if you have multiple mobile devices and you want to move the eBook from the Kindle on a smartphone or on another tablet. In reality the net you can find several “ebook converter” that in addition to changing the format of the digital book are also able to remove DRM protection from AZW file.

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format AZW3 it is a variation of the AZW format and also known as KF8. At first it was only supported by the Kindle Fire tablet and later expanded to the fourth generation Kindle and Kindle software for PC / Mac. Compared to the size or AZW MOBI, AZW3 is more advanced because it supports multiple styles, fonts and layout. In time, this format will gradually replace the ebook formats MOBI.

MOBI is an open standard format for publication of books and eBooks created in this format can have extension. prc .mobi.Il or MOBI format may contain complex content, navigation controls, advanced support indexing, dictionaries and have a high level of compression. Most ebook MOBI downloaded on the Internet today are unprotected and playable on any device.

Other book format available for Kindle readers is to TPZ (Topaz). They are the ebook with a partitolare file structure and data, and in most cases have no DRM protection. If an ebook TPZ is protected by DRM takes on a new format and a new extension that is AZW1 .

Finally, there should be mentioned also the ebook format HTMLZ : are simple HTML files compressed into a zip archive.

At the moment these are the most popular ebook formats supported by Kindle Reader. There would be no wonder if that much with the next Kindle models will be born of the other!

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