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Open eBook format: Are Reading Apps the Only Choice?

January 27, 2015

Paper books are for ever. Buy them once and you can read them anywhere. Although mobile, the same cannot be said of the myriad eBook formats available today.

Proprietary formats like Kindle, Nook, and Kobo, of course, cannot be used with other devices that easily. You have to be a tech wizard to get these book to work on different devices. Here a few problems Anick Jesdanun found when trying to port eBooks to different devices.

NEW YORK (AP) – In the world of e-books, you largely have a choice between Amazon’s Kindle and everyone else. Amazon.com Inc. distributes its e-books in a proprietary format that isn’t compatible with other devices and systems. Other companies have embraced a format called EPub. In theory, that means books bought for one non-Kindle device can…

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Books take you where you cannot go, show what you cannot see, and feel what you cannot experience. I endeavor to pick and share the best of non-fiction with you so you don’t have to look for a needle in a haystack.

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