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Third-party ebook formatting programs like Jutoh and Vellum have to use the Kindlegen inside Kindle Previewer.Ĭonversely, Amazon's Kindle Create has been getting updates and Amazon recently has been herding self-publishers to use it: Plus, Amazon no longer offers Kindlegen as a standalone download. Which I believe is built-in, whether the publisher (us) wants the ebook DRM-free, or not? Please correct me if I'm wrong.Īmazon has not updated Kindlegen in at least seven years it's been stalled on version 2.9 forever. The KFX format runs on the new Kindles.Īnd KFX has DRM encryption. The AZW and AZW3 (KF formats run on older Kindles. KFX replaces the older AZW and AZW3 (KF file formats. To my knowledge Enhanced Typesetting runs only on the new KFX format. That would be fine, except for two things. ET is not so bad, it has better rendering and better typesetting, and it's reflowable. It appears all directed toward compliance with Enhanced Typesetting. For uploading ebook files, Amazon has changed a bunch of stuff within the last 30 days. Maybe Amazon might offer an option to upload a file without enabling Enhanced Typesetting but then of course you risk your ebook looking like the second-class cousin with the bad haircut.Īt this point I'm wondering, skeptically, why Amazon are pushing Enhanced Typesetting so hard. Iota.Click to expand.The change coming on October 27 sounds to me like Amazon is saying Starting Oct 27, if you try uploading a file that contains formatting that is disallowed in Enhanced Typesetting, such as any HTML/CSS crap, you can expect a big fat error message with a convenient auto-log entry that you can peruse to discover the uber-techy reason your file got rejected. Maybe it will, as it develops.but I've spent the last few months helping authors with the KDP Print Beta, and you know how different that is, from Createspace? Pretty much Not. Those folks? KCreate won't help them any more than any of the available options do now. You know how many of those, could have been uploaded at the KDP, and done "okay," just using Word? Not 100. And yes, I've seen more than my fair share of files that have "enter" at the end of every. Files that have manually typed page numbers, footnotes, running heads. We see files that have NEVER seen a Style. KINDLE TEXTBOOK CREATOR CREATE AZW3 HOW TOFrom what I've seen the same authors that already know how to actually use Word, and upload a file that will already work, at the KDP, to make a book, will be able to use KCreate, and those that treat it like a damned typewriter, won't be able to use KCreate, so: what, exactly, makes what easier? I'll answer this question WHEN KCreate actually makes it "easier" for authors. I'm not sure if this is the place for this discussion, but I have to ask.do you think that Amazon making it easier for authors is a bad thing? This is the reverse of how things have worked up to now. Since the file sent to Amazon when the book is published is basically KFX, Amazon must be deriving the MOBI and KF8 formats from KFX at their end. Changes are made using a new KFX editor with limited functionality. KINDLE TEXTBOOK CREATOR CREATE AZW3 CODEMuch of the conversion and previewing code seems to be borrowed from Kindle Previewer 3. The Word file is converted to KFX on import. Internally the program uses KPF file format, which is KFX data stored in a SQL database. Looking behind the scenes at how the program works may provide some information on the direction Amazon is going with the Kindle platform. It doesn't provide any information at all on why the conversion failed. If the import fails it pops up a dialog box telling you to submit your Word file directly via KDP instead. It doesn't work with every Word document. (Amazon probably considers this to be a positive.) Likewise, if you want to revise the original Word document and republish you will need to redo all edits made with Kindle Create. That could be a problem if you want to publish the same book as an EPUB. Any edits and formatting changes made after import are only available in the proprietary format used by this program. The program imports from a Word document, but does not export. On the positive side it does seem simple to use and so could help someone who is trying to publish a book without having to learn a lot. I did some playing around with it and here are my first impressions. KINDLE TEXTBOOK CREATOR CREATE AZW3 DOWNLOADInstead of uploading a Word file and then having to download the result of conversion for testing, Kindle Create does conversion, previewing, and simple fix-ups all in one app. It seems that the intent of this program is to simplify the publishing process for novice authors. There is a good write up at The Digital Reader. KINDLE TEXTBOOK CREATOR CREATE AZW3 PDFAmazon has made available a beta version of a new program, Kindle Create, for publishing Kindle books sourced from Word or PDF documents. ![]()
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