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Mobipocket Format Assessment
Digital Preservation Assessment: Date: 27/06/2019 Preservation Mobipocket Format Preservation Team Assessment Version: 1.1 Mobipocket Format Preservation Assessment Document History Date Version Author(s) Circulation Michael Day, David Russo, Simon 09/02/2018 1.0 External Whibley 27/06/2019 1.1 Simon Whibley, Michael Day External British Library Digital Preservation Team [email protected] This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Page 1 of 12 Digital Preservation Assessment: Date: 27/06/2019 Preservation Mobipocket Format Preservation Team Assessment Version: 1.1 1. Introduction This document provides a high-level, non-collection-specific assessment of the Mobipocket file format with regard to long-term preservation risks and the practicalities of preserving data in the format. This format assessment is one of a series of assessments carried out by the British Library's Digital Preservation Team. An explanation of the criteria used in this assessment is provided in italics below most headings. 1.1 Scope This document is specifically focused on the Mobipocket file format – sometimes also known as the MOBI format – although it will also note relationships with other formats and standards as necessary, including the Open eBook Publication Structure (OEBPS) and XHTML, as well as the derived AZW and KF8 formats used by Amazon. A general overview of eBook formats is provided in a separate file format assessment (1). Please note that this assessment considers format issues only, and does not explore other factors essential to a preservation planning exercise, e.g. the collection specific characteristics that need to be considered before implementing preservation actions. -
Amazon Kindle Publishing Guidelines
Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers Page 2 of 72 Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers Getting started .............................................................................................................. 4 Paths to get your content on Kindle ..................................................................... 4 Kindle Title Manager...................................................................................................... 4 Conversion Houses ......................................................................................................... 5 Creating ebooks in-house using Mobigen software....................................................... 7 Amazon.com's Digital Text Platform ............................................................................. 7 Formatting Guidelines ................................................................................................ 8 Text Guidelines............................................................................................................... 8 Cover image guidelines................................................................................................. 10 TOC Guidelines ............................................................................................................ 11 Guide Item guidelines................................................................................................... 13 Image guidelines .......................................................................................................... -
August 26, 2015 VIA EMAIL Ursalina Ramirez Chief of Staff New York
August 26, 2015 VIA EMAIL Ursalina Ramirez Chief of Staff New York City Department of Education 52 Chambers Street New York, NY 10007 [email protected] Re: Proposed Contract Between the New York City Department of Education and Amazon Digital Services, Inc. Dear Ms. Ramirez: Thank you for your letter of yesterday’s date. You note that the Department of Education will retain the right to order books elsewhere, but it appears to us that teachers and school administrators wishing to buy books and take advantage of deep discounts would be inclined to buy Amazon’s content through the DOE storefront. Regardless of the original source of the ebooks or econtent, if DOE distributes the book through Amazon’s current distribution software, the student or teacher will receive content with the same accessibility shortcomings as Amazon’s Kindle content. Amazon’s distribution mechanism converts all content to Amazon’s proprietary Kindle format, including accessible ePub3 content provided by publishers or accessible instructional materials provided by a teacher. While Amazon’s converter accepts ePub and other accessible content, it locks the distributed content into the Kindle format. Unlike many other vendors, Amazon’s current distribution platform does not permit “side loading” that would enable non-proprietary formats to be presented in the reading system. As a result, otherwise accessible content, when channeled through Amazon’s distribution system, will have the shortcomings described in the attached document, or worse. The attached document shows the problems with two Kindle formats in two charts. The first chart addresses Amazon’s Print Replica formatted ebooks, books that even when used by a blind student on the optimum device, the Kindle Fire, still have significant deficits compared to the reading experience for the sighted student. -
Amazon Kindle Publishing Guidelines
Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers Version 1.6: Page 2 of 86 Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers Getting started .............................................................................................................. 4 Paths to get your content on Kindle ..................................................................... 4 Kindle Title Manager...................................................................................................... 4 Conversion Houses ......................................................................................................... 5 Creating Kindle Books in-house using KindleGen and Kindle Previewer software...... 6 Instructions to use KindleGen..................................................................................... 7 Instructions to Install Kindle Previewer ..................................................................... 8 Amazon.com's Digital Text Platform ............................................................................. 9 Content Creation Guidelines........................................................................................... 9 Formatting Guidelines ................................................................................................ 9 Text Guidelines............................................................................................................. 10 Cover image guidelines................................................................................................ -
Format Format Format \Title{Formatting Information} Format Format Format
i i i ‘beginlatex’ --- 2018/12/4 --- 23:30 --- page 1 --- #1 i format format format \title{formatting information} format format format An introduction to typesetting with LATEX Peter Flynn i i i i i i i ‘beginlatex’ --- 2018/12/4 --- 23:30 --- page 2 --- #2 i Copyright This document is copyright © 1999–2017 by Silmaril Consultants under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (copyleft). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later ver- sion published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in Appendix 6 starting on page 271. You are allowed to distribute, reproduce, and modify this document without fee or further requirement for consent subject to the conditions in section F.5 on page 275. The author has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this document. If you make useful modifications you are asked to inform the author so that the master copy can be updated for the benefit of others. The PDF edition was typeset with X LE ATEX in Charis SIL, Raleway, and Nimbus15 Narrow from the XML master document also used in the web and eBook editions, transformed with XSLT2, Calibre, and kindlegen. Readers of the Kindle (.mobi) version may notice that the TEX and related logos are reproduced in plain text rather than with the special spacing and alignment normally seen; this is to compensate for the many deficiencies of the Kindle file format and the Kindle devices, which are not capable of reproducing microtypographic adjustments. -
A Short Note on Ebook Formats Ebook Is a Digital Version of a Book Which
A short note on eBook formats eBook is a digital version of a book which could be in any of the following formats – PDF, epub, mobi, PDB, TXT, LRF, CHM, djvu, LIT, etc. ePub format is supported by Android devices, Apple devices, Barnes & Noble Nook, Cybook, Kobo, SonyReader, etc. Kindle (mobi format) files are supported by Kindle devices, Apple iOS devices and Android devices. Your Question: What is Epub3? Are you using it? Is it true that this format will work perfectly on ALL devices? Our Answer: ePUB 3 is the newest revision of the ePUB standard. ePUB 3, once the standards are finalized and eBook readers become compatible with this new standards, will support Rich Media Enhancements (video and audio support, synchronization of audio with text, embedded font support, improved SVG support, JavaScript support) and General Enhancements (latest web standards - HTML5/CSS3, global language support – vertical writing, style and layout enhancements – multi-columns, hyphenation, and MathML support). International Digital Publishing Forum’s ePUB 3 working group is currently working on finalization of standards and validations. We are yet to start producing ePUB 3 because the standards are yet to be finalized and currently there are no reading devices supporting ePUB 3. At this point in time, we do not know if all eReaders will support all features of ePUB 3. Your Question: Are you able to ensure that TOC appears on ePUB files in future? Currently not working on generic ePub files when uploaded to Kindle. Our Answer: Yes. We have ensured that TOC appears when you open an ePUB file in Kindle Previewer which converts the ePUB into a .mobi file.