- Extension
- .azw3
- .jbg
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Ebook
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Amazon
- Joint Bi-level Image Experts Group (JBIG)
- Description
- An AZW3 file is an eBook created in the Kindle Format 8 (KF8), Amazon's successor to the .AZW format. It supports newer features such as HTML5 and CSS3 support as well as many other formatting capabilities. AZW3 files often include DRM protection and are used as the download format for many Amazon eBooks.
- Created by JBIG (Joint Bi-level Image Experts Group), JBG is a lossless file format that contains both colored and monochrome images. Commonly used to compress fax images, and it has better compression than G3 and G4 compression codecs.
- MIME Type
- application/x-mobipocket-ebook
- image/jbig
