Amazon Kindle Ebook Format

Azw3 arrived in 2011 with the release of the kindle fire reader.

Amazon kindle ebook format. Now if you ve run across various forums you may have seen people refer to azw format or azw3 format. Whenever you buy or download an ebook from amazon you will receive it on your device in one of the two formats. The former is the actual final encrypted kindle format that is dispensed from the amazon store to your kindle as a purchased book.

Azw is the older of the two. Find more hand picked tech deals. This will automatically apply the formatting.

Today s best tech deals. Kindles do not support the epub file format used by many other e book readers though epub files can be converted to other formats like mobi and pdf which kindles can read. The azw and azw3 extensions are amazon s two proprietary ebook formats.

If your mobi file contains reflowable content i e. To ensure that your book body text displays consistently you ll want to indent paragraphs tab spacing doesn t convert to kindle and set line spacing. Most e book readers also support the pdf and plain text formats.

Epub is a common ebook format around the web but the kindle can t read it natively. Convert a kindle ebook to a different format. Text heavy books we recommend you upload an epub file instead.

The biggest selection of ebooks and audiobooks from kindle in literature fiction foreign languages religion spirituality business romance history kids non fiction chick lit mysteries thrillers and science fiction. Picked by pcworld s editors. You can convert epub files to mobi files for the kindle to read.