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Amazon Kindle E-Readers Will Now Make It Easier to Load EBooks You Didn't Buy From Amazon

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In a potential blow to all the apps and websites that have popped up alongside the Amazon Kindle to streamline the process of converting EPUB ebook files to the e-reader’s propriety file format, starting in “late 2022,” the Kindle Personal Documents Service will finally support EPUB files , expanding where users can… Read more.

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Amazon's Kindle Author Service Dumps Problematic Mobi Files

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If you’ve read this far, you’re probably a self-published author who has once struggled with Amazon’s fussy Kindle Direct Publishing platform. The platform, which allows you to upload and sell ebooks and paperbacks, has always been unusually frustrating when it came to ebook layout. If you did it right, you were fine.…

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‘ARKTIKA.1’ Launches October 10th, Pre-orders Now Available

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The game will also be launching alongside a companion eBook , penned by New York Times Bestselling author and script writer of the game Christie Golden. The eBook is available on Amazon for $1, and is slated to launch on October 10th. SEE ALSO Hands-on: Ubisoft's New VR Shooter 'Space Junkies' is All About Guns and Jetpacks.

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Oculus Studios’ VR Shooter ARKTIKA.1 To Get An Ebook Companion Later This Year

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Partnering with Del Ray Books, an imprint of the well know Random House publisher, 4A Games has inked a storytelling deal that will see a companion eBook launch in Q3 this year. The news comes by way of a press release on Gamasutra and the upcoming eBook is titled ARKTIKA.1: 1: My Name is Viktoria. Tagged with: 4A Games , arktika.1

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Amazon's Kindle will finally support epub files

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You know how every other ebook reader under the sun supports EPUB files, but Amazon's Kindle stubbornly refuses to do so? Amazon quietly updated its help documentation (via Goodreader ) to state that Kindle devices will start supporting EPUB files. Well, that's changing. There's a catch, though. EPUB) format," says the document.

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Amazon Pulls the Plug on Kindle in China

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Amazon has become the latest big tech company to scale back its ambitions in the Chinese market, announcing Thursday that it would stop shipping its Kindle e-reader there and shutter its ebook store in the country in 2023. The company closed its ecommerce business there in 2019. Read more.

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Amazon Just Made A Big Android Change To Evade Google's Fees

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Amazon has made a big change to how its customers can purchase digital content like ebooks on Android, forcing them out of the main shopping app.

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