Important! Cover image production has changed since this post was written. Amazon now uses the large product image for the inside cover. The parts about how Kindlegen crunches large and/or high quality interior images still apply, but meticulous production of an inside cover is no longer unnecessary. Kindlegen 1.1 (released June 30, 2010) doubled the Kindle […]
Kindle Format 8
Kindle Format 8 with support for HTML5 and CSS3 is very, very BIG news. Finally, the primitive Mobi7 format with its bizarre and convoluted formatting workarounds will be a thing of the past in a few months. Amazon’s announcement explains the changes. Their FAQ (at the bottom of the announcement) says that it won’t be […]
Kindle Maximum Image Size
Do you have illustrations meant to fill the available viewing space on a Kindle page? If so, there are a couple of things you need to know: The dimensions of the viewable area on the Kindle device. Unlike a book cover, which fills the screen at 600 by 800 pixels, pages have margins on all […]
Kindle book cover size
A Kindle book has two cover images that serve different purposes and cause a lot of confusion: The cover image that displays on your Kindle or Kindle reading app The cover image in the amazon.com product catalog Numerous questions posted on the Amazon Digital Text Platform (DTP) Support Forums are about the dimensions and file […]
Revised Kindle Publishing Guidelines
Amazon revised its publishing guidelines for Kindle books in August 2010, and has released several minor updates since then. The most significant change is the doubled maximum file size for images, which is now “under 127KB” instead of “under 63KB”. Images that exceed these limits will be reprocessed by KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing). There are […]