[Booki-dev] Features needed to create Kindle e-books

[adam]

hey james,

I had a good talk to Jan (cc'ed) last night and he said he finds this 
very interesting and may work on it to help you

adam




On 03/08/2011 06:55 PM, James Simmons wrote:
> I'm using Booki to create a book that I'd like to sell as a Kindle
> e-book.  Amazon provides a utility called "kindlegen" that can convert
> an EPUB to a MOBI suitable for reading on a Kindle, but to actually
> sell such a book your original EPUB must have some things that
> Booki-generated EPUBS lack.
>
> 1).  A table of contents page at the front of the book that is linked
> to the chapters.  This is in addition to the TOC that you can access
> from anywhere in the book.
>
> 2).  A cover image, which is a 600x800 JPEG that corresponds to what
> you might see on the cover of a printed book.  The image is put into
> the EPUB in the normal way and is then linked in the metadata for the
> book.
>
> 3).  There should be a way to get an actual author name in the book's
> metadata, rather than just having "The Contributors".
>
> 4).  There needs to be a way to copy the forced page breaks that we
> use for printed books into the EPUB.  You can do this with CSS styles
> in the HTML tag itself.
>
> I can generate an EPUB from Booki, use Sigil to touch it up and add a
> table of contents page, then unzip the EPUB and fix the metadata to
> include my cover page image, then zip it up again and run kindlegen on
> the result.  It would be nice if I didn't have to do that every time,
> though.
>
> James Simmons
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