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

[James Simmons]

Adam,

Good to hear.  I've had some success unzipping the EPUBs, adding the
missing stuff, zipping them back up, and running kindlegen on the
result.  I can give details on what I needed to do.  If you prepare
the EPUB correctly then converting to approved Kindle format is quite
simple.

James Simmons


On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 2:46 PM, adam <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
> 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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