See this earlier post about How to Fix Formatting Issues with EPUBs Sent to Kindles. But Kindle does not support opening EPUB format, the format that Kindle can read is. If you’re experiencing formatting problems when sending EPUB files to your Kindle devices and apps, it’s most likely an encoding issue. 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. Kindle Previewer If youve not done so already, download and install Kindle Previewer: Once the program is installed, open it (it will be in your Programs/. There’s also a note saying, “Later this year, Send to Kindle will be removing the ability to send. While the capability is not available by default, though, you can read your collection of ePubs on your Kindle Fire simply by downloading an e-Pub-compatible reader. 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. Arguably, Amazon does not make it easy to read ePubs on your Kindle Fire.

Kindle can read epub