Amazon Kindle Kindle Betriebsanweisung

Amazon Kindle Publishing Guidelines How to make books available for the Kindle platform version 2015.1 This document describes the primary wa

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers 2.2.2.4 KindleGen Messages As conversion progresses, KindleGen displays detailed informational message

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers • XML (such as DocBook, etc.) • HTML, XHTML • EPUB (also known as IDPF or OEB) The process of conve

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers Features & Benefits All Kindle Devices and Apps except 1st & 2nd Generation Kindles and Kindle

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers 3.1.3 Text Guideline #3: Formatting Paragraphs KindleGen automatically indents the first line of every

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers 3.1.7 Text Guideline #7: CSS Support The earlier Kindle platform offered very basic support for Cascad

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers { span.dropcaps { font-size:3em; font-weight: bold; } }<p class="p

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers Incorrect CSS Code Correct CSS Code body{ font-size: asize; } .indent { font-size: asize; font-family

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers <metadata> ... <meta name="cover" content="my-cover-image" /> ... <

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers <nav epub:type="toc"> <ol> <li><a href="Sway_body.html#preface_1&q

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers <navLabel><text>PART ONE</text></navLabel> <content src="Sway_body.ht

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers Revision History Revision Number Revision Notes 2015.1 • Updated 8 Media Queries • Added 8.1 Media Q

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers Here is an example of a guide item for a TOC (underlined elements are mandatory): <guide> <re

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers Amazon does not recommend adding additional guide items to the OPF file, because they will be grayed o

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers Optimize line-art GIFs before submitting them to KindleGen. Resizing or JPEG compression introduces bl

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers Example Images Description Image A table with line-art/text content rendered as an image. This GIF ima

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers Description Image Bad quality: The image is blurry because of resizing and JPEG compression. The text

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers 3.6.7 Image Guideline #7: Prefer HTML to Images Do not render large chunks of text as images. If an i

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers 3.6.8 Image Guideline #8: Image Caption Placement Amazon recommends placing a caption below the relat

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers <text x="20" y="20" font-size=20 fill="red">svg text sample</

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers <feMergeNode> <feMorphology> <feOffset> <fePointLight> <feSpecularLighting&

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers Table Guidelines 3.73.7.1 Table Guideline #1: Use Tables for Tabular Data Only IMPORTANT: Use tables

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers Table of Contents 1 Getting Started ...

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers 3.7.3 Table Guideline #3: Create Simple HTML Tables Use the <table> tags to create simple tables

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers Styling Guidelines 3.93.9.1 Styling Guideline #1: Use a Nested HTML TOC To create useful, navigable,

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers Beginning Web Programming with HTML, XHTML, and CSS by John Duckett (published by Wrox): http://www.am

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers External Link Guidelines 3.12External links within Kindle books should be present only if they direct

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers Metadata Description content="1024x600"/> resolution of the content (“1024x600” is only a

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers 1 print page = 1 HTML file Example: Landscape orientation lock: 2 print pages (1 two-page spread)

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers the following attributes stored in a JSON object (http://www.w3schools.com/json/json_syntax.asp) as pa

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers <p id="fs1-4-txt"><span class="dropcap">D</span>stands for D

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers changes required to scale to a device that is 150% larger. These changes are limited to a base font-si

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers shifted to the right side of the page by defining a margin-left style set to the width of the left sid

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers 3.6.2 Image Guideline #2: KindleGen Performs Automatic Image Conversions ...

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers div.rightPage { position: absolute; background-repeat: no-repeat; height: 600px; width: 512px

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers Metadata Description 2) <meta name="fixed-layout" content="true"/> paginated

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers Metadata Description specified in the itemref elements (child of <spine> element in the OPF file

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers dismiss Panel View at any time to view the entire page. For an example of Panel View, see the followin

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers … <div id="pagehij-1-magTargetParent" class="target-mag-parent"> <div c

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers taps an area near the middle of the action panel, they experience the first view panel first, and then

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers Hybrid Text HTML Example: <div id="pageXXX-magTargetParent" class="target-mag-paren

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers } Virtual Panels in Comics and Manga 5.6The Virtual Panels feature is activated for comics and manga

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers Landscape mode: Vertical-lr and Horizontal-lr Horizontal-rl and Vertical-rl 5.6.1 Requ

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers Double-page spreads should be tagged with the properties page-spread-left or page-spread-right. Ever

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers 4.3.2 Recommendation #2: Including One CSS File Per HTML Page ...

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers In portrait mode, the two pages will be rendered separately as shown below: If none

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers <itemref idref="page1" /> <!—assumed to be properties="facing-page-left"

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers 6 Audio and Video Guidelines Currently, Kindle Edition with Audio/Video content is available on Fire t

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers "There is audio content at this location that is not currently supported for your device. The cap

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers The following container formats are acceptable: Container File Extensions Mime Type RFC MP4 .mp4 video

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers Example: <a onclick="document.getElementById('audio1').play()"><img src=&

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers ”There is audio content at this location that is not currently supported for your device. The caption

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers • A copyright page • Any relevant front or back matter (explanations of symbols, appendices, etc.) •

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers <DictionaryInLanguage>en-us</DictionaryInLanguage> <DictionaryOutLanguage>en-us</

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers </idx:entry> [...other entries…] </mbp:frameset> </body> </html> 7.3.3 Headw

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers Table of Contents ...

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers The value attribute can be used on the <idx:orth> tag to include a hidden label in the entry. Th

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers category. For languages that use extensive inflection, including these optional categories will expand

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers Testing Kindle Dictionaries 7.67.6.1 Format Testing Amazon recommends verifying that the converted di

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers 8 Media Queries Media queries are blocks of CSS code that allow content creators to apply different st

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers 8.1.2 Media Query Guideline #2: Add a CSS Comment Before Each Media Query Amazon recommends that you a

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers } In the example above, the black border defined in the default code for the blue_background class

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers } } Using Media Queries 8.2The following table outlines examples of supported media que

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers Media Queries in CSS CSS Applied to KF8 CSS Applied to Mobi CSS Applied to Other Readers @media amzn

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers Media Queries in CSS CSS Applied to KF8 CSS Applied to Mobi CSS Applied to Other Readers font-size:

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers CSS CSS Styles Applied to Mobi CSS Styles Applied to KF8 div.example { margin: 10px } ul { ma

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers Appendix A: HTML Tags Supported in Kindle Format 8 ...

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers • One CSS file; • Different CSS files; • Style tags; and • @import. 8.4.1 Option 1: Using One CSS

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers 8.4.4 Option 4: Using @import Media queries can specify different CSS for Mobi and KF8 formats directl

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers @media amzn-mobi { .defaultcontent { display: none; } .mobicontent { display: block; } }

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers 8.5.2 Using the display:none Property with SVG Images The SVG image format is supported in KF8, but n

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers 3. Use KDP. The Kindle Direct Publishing Platform accepts a variety of book formats and provides prev

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers • missing content; • wrong content; • typos and complete character support; • alignment errors; •

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers 11 Appendices Appendix A: HTML Tags Supported in Kindle Format 8 11.1HTML Tag Description Supported o

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers HTML Tag Description Supported on KF8-Enabled Devices & Apps Notes <dt> Specifies a definiti

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers HTML Tag Description Supported on KF8-Enabled Devices & Apps Notes <menu> Specifies a menu l

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers HTML Tag Description Supported on KF8-Enabled Devices & Apps Notes <u> Underlines any text i

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers The most recent version of KindleGen can be downloaded for free from www.amazon.com/kindleformat/kindl

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers Appendix B: CSS Selectors, Attributes, and Properties Supported in Kindle 11.2Format 8 CSS Attribute

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers CSS Attribute Supported on KF8-Enabled Devices & Apps Notes border-width Yes Sets the width of all

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers CSS Attribute Supported on KF8-Enabled Devices & Apps Notes background-position Yes Sets the start

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers CSS Attribute Supported on KF8-Enabled Devices & Apps Notes Direction Yes Sets the base text direc

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers • E: last-child • E: last-of-type • E: only-child • E: only-of-type • E: nth-child • E: nth-last

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers Appendix C: Guidelines for Converting XMDF to KF8 11.311.3.1 Kindlegen Command Kindlegen accepts th

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers <char_id char_id = "CR0006">Sub-Part 2</char_id><br/> 11.3.2.4 Source Issu

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers ... </special_page_link> 11.3.2.11 Source Issue #11—Large Amount of Text Is Not Centered Do not

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers Serial No. Feature Tag Example </object_table> </parts_module> 5 Search pages search_pa

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers 11.3.3.1 Ignored Features For some features that are not supported, Kindlegen does not error out. Inst

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers o Alternatively, view the instructions by typing the command cd ~/Downloads/KindleGen_Mac_i386_v2 in

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers Serial No. Feature Tag/Attribute Example table_id="ST0001"> Color </key_item>