Kindle and epub exchange

We
knew that kindle is for amazon, epub is for ipad.

Recently
I heard about that they can change to each other, that's a good
news.

But
the fact is no.

Well,
the new Kindle format that we discovered yesterday is a pretty
good sign that Epub just isn't going to happen.

Amazon
just released Kindle print replica (KPR), and it has a lot of
details in common with a PDF. KPR is a fixed layout ebook
format like PDF and it even uses a similar tool bar.

Here's
the thing. Amazon didn't adopt PDF. They could have used PDFs if
they wanted to, but instead they went with their own proprietary
format. They went with something that was like PDF but  that
they could control completely.

This
new format should tell you a lot about Amazon. They value control
over usability. It should also tell you that Amazon's future
plans probably won't include any open formats.

If
Amazon ever do adopt Epub, I'd bet that they will call it
something else. I also suspect that Amazon Epub format will not
be wrapped in a Zip file (like the Epub standard requires).
Breaking with the open standard is how they control their
platform.

There
are two ways to change the reality:

Wait
or
use ebook converter or
something like that, firs need to

remove
drm from PDF

remove
drm from epub