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Guidelines for Specific Types of eBooks
Creating Reflowable Books
Creating Reflowable Books
Amazon refers to text-heavy fiction and nonfiction eBooks as "reflowable" because this type of content
reflows when an eBook's text settings are changed. In general, a book can be converted as a reflowable
eBook when the body text can be easily separated from the images without losing any context or
important layout design. For this reason, comic eBooks should be created and uploaded using a fixed-layout format.
The reflowable format supports Enhanced Typesetting, as well as a number of features that allow readers to interact with and customize the way the text appears on their devices. These features include dictionary, X-Ray (when available), text-to-speech (when available), Word Wise (when available), Kindle Real Page Numbers (when available), and the ability to change text and formatting settings.
The reflowable format supports Enhanced Typesetting, as well as a number of features that allow readers to interact with and customize the way the text appears on their devices. These features include dictionary, X-Ray (when available), text-to-speech (when available), Word Wise (when available), Kindle Real Page Numbers (when available), and the ability to change text and formatting settings.
Metadata Guidelines
eBooks are reflowable by default. Reflowable eBooks do not need to specifymeta name="book-type"
in the OPF file, but <dc:language
> and <dc:title
> are required. If the page propagation direction is not left-to-right, page propagation direction should be provided either in the metadata or the spine. (Example: <meta name="primary-writing-mode" content="horizontal-rl"/>
)
Layout Guidelines
Create the content using single column layout. Do not use the CSSposition:
property for alignments.
Text Guidelines
- Heading Alignment and Justification
- Body Text Defaults
- Formatting Paragraphs
- Fixed Values
- Margin and Padding Formatting
- Drop Caps
- CSS for Page Breaks
- Embedded Fonts
- Customizing Font Selection
- Page Number Guidelines
- Enabling Real Page Numbers
- Footnote Guidelines