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Recently they appear to have broken this functionality and now extract the title from the filename, and set the author to “Unknown”.

If you send EPUBs to your Kindle account via email, or use a third party application like our Push to Kindle service to send web articles, you will notice a difference in how your documents are displayed on your Kindle account.Īmazon previously extracted the title and author from the EPUB files it processed, and displayed those in the Kindle library view. So you should no longer be seeing ‘Unknown’ as the author for new documents sent to your Kindle account.Īmazon is currently having trouble correctly handling EPUB metadata sent through its Kindle Personal Documents Service. After August 18, please use the EPUB format for viewing on Kindle apps and devices.Update #1 (16 October 2022): Currently EPUB titles are still incorrectly handled by Amazon (taken from the filename rather than the EPUB metadata), but they have made a change to correctly extract the author name from EPUBs. Please visit your account and download any MOBI files you wish to retain, before August 18. This change does not mean any loss in content from your purchase, as the EPUB file already included with your purchase still contains all the same content, and may be used on the same devices and apps as the MOBI format was. Purchases of future multi-format eBook files on after August 18 will include the EPUB and PDF formats, but will no longer include MOBI. However, the downloadable multi-format eBook files available on your Microsoft Press Store account will no longer include the MOBI format those links will be removed on August 18, 2022.

The MOBI file format no longer supports the newest document features, while the EPUB format is updated and accepted by Kindle devices.Īny MOBI files you have already sent to your Kindle will not be affected by this change. As of August 2022, you will no longer be able to send the MOBI file format to Kindles or the Kindle app using the Send to Kindle service. The MOBI format will no longer be available for download as of Augfor any past purchase of a multi-format eBook here on the Microsoft Press Store website.Īmazon has announced the retirement of its proprietary MOBI file format for eBooks, and a transition to the EPUB format for use on Kindle devices and apps.