Amazon announced that it has released tools for making books using web technologies, such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). Kindle Format 8 utilizes HTML5 and CSS3 that allows publishers to generate books in all categories, especially those that need rich formatting and design.
It would be ideal for technical and engineering books, cookbooks, graphic novels, comics, and children’s books. This is in accordance to the gradual expansion of e-book abilities. While it is fine for most books to have pure text that are suitable to read on small smartphone screens, graphics are required for other markets.
With the use of web technology, Amazon can take advantage of the industry standards and can use the innovations as they arrive, such as hardware-accelerated rendering in browsers. The first readers that can read the new books are Kindle Fire tablets, which are Android-based devices that Amazon released last year. It first announced the KF8 e-book format in October during the Kindle Fire’s launch.
Amazon released two tools for its new book format. Kindle Previewer allows authors to view how their books would look at various devices. The KindleGen is a tool that convert source material made in other formats into KF8.
