This is particularly relevant in light of the forthcoming implementation of the European Accessibility Act.Because MOBI is an eBook format, most free desktop eReader programs support opening and viewing them-like Calibre, FBReader, Mobipocket Reader, or Mobi File Reader, to name just a few.Īfter downloading and installing one of the free applications, opening any of your MOBI files is relatively easy.

Conformance and Discoverability Requirements for EPUB Publications. Recently the W3C released the draft of the EPUB Accessibility 1.1.

This is possible thanks to a maximized use of the HTML5 semantic tags, the development of ARIA tags (which identify the different parts of the text), as well as the possibility to declare the file’s accessibility level directly inside the e-book’s metadata. In particular, the EPUB 3 format allows the creation of more accessible contents, providing print impaired readers with fully usable publications. EPUB is one of the mainstream format of the digital publishing industry. It was adopted as the official standard by the International Digital Publishing Forum ( IDPF), and now is managed by the World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C). The EPUB format is an open standard for the publication of e-books. Until now, MOBI files were produced starting from publishers’ EPUB files in order to make them available on the Amazon store, a process that will be simplified and sped up by this new choice. The MOBI format was created as a digital publication format by the French company Mobipocket, bought in 2005 by Amazon, that then chose this format for its Kindle devices. The MOBI format, anyway, will still be accepted for all fixed-layout e-books. As stated by Amazon, these rules will be effective both for publishers and for self-publishing authors who provide their e-books on the platform.

This is a turning point for Amazon, who announced this decision as the first step “to simplify the e-book publication process” on its platform.Īs for reflowable e-books, publishers will have to use other formats: EPUB, KPF (Kindle Create files) or DOC/DOCX (Microsoft Word files).

Amazon announced that, after June 28, 2021, Kindle will no longer ingest the MOBI format for reflowable e-books, as well as the derived formats PRC and AZK.

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