Author Archives: vellum

Kindle Format 8 Tools and Information Released

Posted on January 11, 2012 by vellum

New Kindlegen, new Kindle Previewer, new Kindle guidelines… www.amazon.com/KindleFormat Ahem. The days of Kindle Previewer being a quick, lightweight download appear to be over; hardly surprising given that KF8 requires a much more complex rendering engine than the old Mobi … Continue reading →

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Manually Tweaking eCub’s Generated Table-of-Contents

Posted on October 26, 2011 by vellum

In Handcrafted Ebooks I relied extensively on the excellent (and free) eCub program to build ePub files. eCub is an ebook builder, not an ebook layout tool — it takes the content and layout expressed in a set of .xhtml … Continue reading →

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Amazon Announces Kindle Format 8

Posted on October 26, 2011 by vellum

Amazon has announced the replacement for its existing Kindle (Mobi) format; the list of supported HTML and CSS tags is here. You can also sign up to be notified when the publishing tools and guidelines are released. Plainly, Amazon is moving … Continue reading →

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