All about EPUB files
open e-book standard format
The epub (short for electronic publication) file extension signifies an e-book file that has been saved according to the EPUB standard. EPUB is a non-proprietary, vendor-independent e-book format that is based on HTML and is supported by a large number of hardware e-book readers, computer software and smartphone apps. Though EPUB takes only a negligible share of commercial e-book publications, it is widespread among suppliers of public domain content. It has some advantages over PDF, e.g. text can be optimized for different displays.
Being a ZIP-compressed archive, an epub file contains numerous files: the book content coded in HTML, optional image files and style sheets, and metadata, i.e. information on how to put together the components of the e-book.
Several epub readers are available on all major hardware platforms except Amazon Kindle. To read an epub file on a Kindle, it needs to be converted to a supported format like pdf, MOBI, azw or kf8.
Convert, open and edit EPUB files
Details about EPUB files
- Software for opening EPUB files
- Calibre
- Apple Books
- Adobe Digital Editions
- Kobo
- Software for editing EPUB files
- Calibre
- Sigil
- Adobe InDesign
- Vellum
- MIME-type for EPUB
- application/epub+zip
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