

See this earlier post about How to Fix Formatting Issues with EPUBs Sent to Kindles. Starting from 2022, there is no longer any reason why you would ever need a. Over the last two years, as of this writing, Amazon and Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) has slowly phased out the MOBI file in favor of the EPUB file for ebooks. If you’re experiencing formatting problems when sending EPUB files to your Kindle devices and apps, it’s most likely an encoding issue. Recently, it seems that Amazon is ensuring the death of the MOBI file. It’s important to note that Kindle devices and Kindle apps don’t and probably never will support EPUB ebooks directly this is all just an elaborate way for Amazon to convert EPUB files to a Kindle-supported format to then send to Kindle devices and apps (the funny thing is they’re dropping support for sending MOBI files but then they convert EPUBs to MOBI to send to the iOS app-that makes a lot of sense).Īdditionally, you can only send DRM-free EPUB ebooks that don’t have any copy protection, so you can’t send Adobe EPUBs, for example, or other EPUB ebooks that you purchased unless they are DRM-free or you remove the DRM restrictions first. There’s also a note saying, “Later this year, Send to Kindle will be removing the ability to send. To send an EPUB file from your Android or iOS device, just select the “Share” option and the Kindle app will show up with the option to send the file to your Kindle devices and account. If you are sending an EPUB file to your Kindle device, right now the only way to do it is through email.
