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The Kindle is Getting Support For HTML5

Posted by timothy on from the that's-right-supporting-of-you-jeff dept.

Nate the greatest writes "It looks like Amazon won't be adopting Epub after all. [Thursday] Amazon released some technical details on the new Kindle ebook format, which they are calling Kindle 8. There are a lot of interesting changes to the file, including new formatting and SVG images. The new tags are going to open up a whole lot of new possibilities for making Kindle ebooks."

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  1. Re:Good News for Authors by optimism · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I look upon the inevitable Kindle conversion with a terrible dread. I'm typing it up in Google Docs, but because I use italics for emphasis, this means I have to either manually construct the book (and manually re-put in all my italics and formatting), or use a converter which will produce sucky output which will require a lot of manual cleanup

    Crikey.

    I had no idea the Kindle conversion was as lame as you say.

    I thought we software-folk had solved all the issues of converting basic formatted text about 20 years ago. Equations, vector graphics, embedded images...OK, they might still be cross-format hurdles.

    But italics? Seriously? That's so 1980's