Ebook file formats

Formats for books read on screens and e-readers. The text reflows to fit the screen and the reader’s chosen font size, and the package carries the book’s chapters, pictures and details such as title and author.

Formats

.AZW3

Kindle Format 8 ebook

Amazon’s Kindle Format 8: HTML5 and CSS books in the MOBI record container.

.CBR

Comic book RAR archive

A comic as a RAR archive of page images, read in file name order.

.CBZ

Comic book ZIP archive

A comic as a ZIP archive of page images, read in file name order.

.EPUB

EPUB ebook

The open ebook standard: XHTML chapters and a package document in a ZIP file.

.FB2

FictionBook

An ebook as one XML file: description, sections of text and Base64 images.

.MOBI

Mobipocket ebook

Mobipocket and early Kindle ebooks: compressed text records in a Palm database.