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I’ve styled my book so text is green (cripes) and images float to the right. This is your stylesheet and it’s how you’ll design your book using CSS 3. You’ll see that each link points to a part of the Kindle book using anchor points.

Keep the HTML simple and refer to Amazon’s documentation for details on how they want you to write your markup. This is the content of your book - what your readers will read.

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That’s the file that gets dropped onto your Kindle for reading.įirst, you need to make the files that comprise the book.ġ) Download this ZIP of sample files that I’ve made for youĢ) Unzip it and put the resulting folder called “My Kindle Book” on your DesktopĤ) Open that folder and let’s go through these files one-by-one.

To make a Kindle book, you assemble a bunch of files and run them through Amazon’s processing engine called KindleGen. Some people get nervous when the command line is involved, but don’t worry. And we’re going to do a little stuff in Terminal. It will also be helpful if you know HTML 5 and CSS 3 and are familiar with XML.

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Check out one of the comments below for advice on how to get this to work on a Windows machine. If you’re on a PC, keep reading, but you’re going to have to be on a Mac to make this recipe work. This tutorial is written for people using Macs.

Learn more about us at and email if you need help with your project.Īlso, note that this article has translated into Serbo-Croatian by Vera Djuraskovic. I run Perry Garvin Studio, a design firm in Brooklyn, New York and we specialize in Kindle book design, publishing, and conversion, web design, user interface design, branding, and development. It’s an exciting (and, yes, still nascent) time for electronic book designers and I hope this tutorial gets you up and running. Amazon’s KF8 (Kindle Format 8) opens up new opportunities for designers by supporting all the wonders of CSS 3 and HTML 5 on Kindle devices. This tutorial cuts through a lot of the confusion out there by providing a step-by-step recipe and the boilerplate Kindle files you’ll need so you can start making your own Kindle books within less than 10 minutes. I’m going to show you how to make a Kindle ebook using HTML 5 and CSS 3.