If you are an avid reader, you may have come across the term eBook at least a few dozen times over the past decade or so. While at the time, you may have been skeptical about replacing paperbacks ...

Amazon is finally supporting ePub files — the de facto open ebook standard — on Kindles, according to help documentation spotted by Good E-Reader. It’s been a long time coming, but starting later this ...

You know how Apple sometimes freaks out about protecting intellectual property, even disabling certain features to discourage piracy and push users to their own digital content stores? A good example ...

It’s almost hard to remember, but when it came out, iBooks could read only EPUB files, not PDFs, and the only way to load them was by syncing with iTunes. Over a number of releases of both iBooks and ...

Kindle users will be able to download specific titles they've bought as a PDF or EPUB file next year, but only if the author ...

Amazon has held firm over the past 15 years by keeping the widely accepted (some would even say ‘default’) digital book format, ‘.ePub’, off its digital reading devices, but a truce has finally been ...

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. We were so close! And it’s wild because we’ve been this close, and also this far, since the Kindle ...

This has been an interesting week. What was supposed to be just a weekend project turned into a week-long research project. Along the way, I got to make a bunch of new friends, learned a lot, and ...

You know how every other ebook reader under the sun supports EPUB files, but Amazon's Kindle stubbornly refuses to do so? Well, that's changing. Amazon quietly updated its help documentation (via ...