Kindle Format 8 is the next generation file format for Amazon Kindle

Amazon Kindle

The Amazon Kindle is an e-book reader developed by Amazon.com subsidiary Lab126 which uses wireless connectivity to enable users to shop for, download, browse, and read e-books, newspapers, magazines, blogs, and other digital media...

 books – replacing Mobi 7

Mobipocket

Mobipocket SA is a French company incorporated in March 2000 which produces Mobipocket Reader software, an E-Book reader for some PDAs, phones and desktop operating systems....

. It integrates many HTML5 tags and CSS

CSS

-Computing:*Cascading Style Sheets, a language used to describe the style of document presentations in web development*Central Structure Store in the PHIGS 3D API*Closed source software, software that is not distributed with source code...

 attributes. It will be native to the Kindle Fire

Kindle Fire

The Kindle Fire is a tablet computer version of Amazon.com's Kindle e-book reader. Announced on 28 September 2011, the Kindle Fire has a color 7" multi-touch display with IPS technology and runs a forked version of Google's Android operating system. It includes access to the Amazon Appstore,...

tablet device and integrated into new e-ink devices by the end of 2011. Older e-ink devices will not support it, however publishers can convert from KF8 to Mobi, as long the as the book content supports it.

External links

• Kindle Format 8, Amazon.com
• KF8 Feature List, full list of format features.