Quark announced today the availability of a new, free update to QuarkXPress 9 that allows designers to export digital content directly to the Amazon Kindle format. The Kindle is the world’s bestselling e-reader that gives users access to over a million books, newspapers, and magazines from a variety of platforms, including Kindle devices. Now, with a single design tool – QuarkXPress 9.3 – designers, authors, and publishers can reach audiences across print, Web, Kindle, iPad, and devices that support ePub such as the Sony Reader, and NOOK.

QuarkXPress 9.3 is available free-of-charge to all QuarkXPress 9 users and can be downloaded here: http://www.quark.com/support/downloads/.

The new Kindle support in QuarkXPress 9.3 allows users to export their content directly to the Kindle format without needing conversion tools or plug-ins, which can help publishers – especially smaller or self-publishers – reach the huge Kindle market faster and more easily than ever before. By utilizing the same reflow features available in QuarkXPress 9, users can get to both the ePub and Kindle formats without additional time and effort and all within a single software solution.

Additional Updates
Quark releases regular updates to QuarkXPress to improve the user experience. In addition to direct-to-Kindle publishing support, QuarkXPress 9.3 includes new support for inline table of contents in ePub files and various fixes and improvements to EPS/PDF display, PDF boxes, page reordering, and more. Visit http://support.quark.com/documentation/QuarkXPress/9.htmlfor a list of known and resolved issues in QuarkXPress 9.3.

Upgrade for $349
Currently all QuarkXPress users – even those with versions dating back to version 3 – are eligible to upgrade to QuarkXPress 9 for just $349. In addition to support for publishing to the Kindle, the iPad, and ePub devices, QuarkXPress 9 features productivity-boosting print and digital design functionality and Mac OS X Lion certification. To upgrade, please click here.

Gluon ProPack Offer
In addition to the availability of QuarkXPress 9.3, Quark also announced today that anyone purchasing or upgrading to QuarkXPress 9 between May 31st and June 30th 2012 will receive Gluon’s newest ProPack 9, worth $219, free of charge. For more information please click here.