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has free viewer software for all platforms -- PCs. Macs, iPads,
Android devices... it just makes sense to me to publish once to
Kindle and be done with it.
KF8, Epub 3 and the future
So far, we’ve looked at creating ebooks for e-ink Kindles that also
run on new Kindle Fire. (Jutoh also makes ebooks that run on
Nooks, iBooks, iPads, and Android tablets... the Jutoh-produced
.epub file is truly cross-platform).
KF8 -- the Kindle Fire and future Kindles will use the new Kindle Format 8 filetype rather than the Mobipocket filetype. KF8,
like Epub 3, is based on HTML 5 and CSS 3. Happily, it supports
all existing Mobi 7 Kindle books without the user having to do
any conversions. KF8 is a major improvement over Mobi, with
150 new formatting styles including embedded fonts, drop caps
and CSS selectors such as line spacing, alignment, justification,
margin, color, style and borders.
From Amazon: ‘It enables publishers to create great-looking
books in categories that require rich formatting and design such
as children’s picture books, comics & graphic novels, technical &
engineering books and cookbooks. Kindle Format 8 replaces the
Mobi format and adds over 150 new formatting capabilities,
including fixed layouts, nested tables, callouts, sidebars and Scalable Vector Graphics’... plus video and audio delivery ... plus
Android tablet touchscreen support.
As of February 2012, we don’t know much else about KF8. The
KF8 publishing tool, KindleGen 2, will be "available soon," says
Amazon, as will a new viewing tool, Kindle Previewer 2. But
some information is coming out, like a partial list of supported
HTML 5 and CSS 3 code elements.