It’s finally happened. Amazon has announced that soon it will no longer accept* Mobi files in KDP. They just sent out an email informing authors and publishers that Epub and...Continue reading
Category: eBook Formatting
Why The Kindle Hasn’t Changed Books, and Other Slightly Ridiculous Questions
Over on Wired David Piece asks the same slightly ridiculous question outside pundits ask every so often: why Amazon has failed to change books as an art form as much...Continue reading
Xkcd, Kerning, Full-Width Justification, Kerning, and Light Sabers
Between its strips on kerning, dates, and diacritics, the webcomic xkcd has shown itself to be adept at poking fun at bad formatting. Today the webcomic turned its attention to kerning again, this time...Continue reading
Amazon Now Freaking Out Over TOC Location in Kindle eBooks?
Every so often Amazon decides to crack down on violations of some rule in its voluminous ToS or Kindle publishing guidelines, or even just because readers are complaining. In the...Continue reading
Yesterday’s News, and Tomorrow’s: Badly-Formatted Kindle eBooks Will (Continue to) Display an Error Message
An old story cropped up yesterday as “new” news when it may be anything but. According to one of my competitors: Starting February 3, 2016 Amazon will begin showing customers...
The Kindle’s New Typography is Hard to Pin Down, But It Is Pretty
Several days ago Amazon released a new version of the Kindle app for iPad and iPhone which added a new font (Bookerly), hyphenation, and all around better text rendering. To...Continue reading
Is Nonfiction eBook Formatting Still Terrible on Tablets?
The latest edition of UI guru Jakob Nielsen’s newsletter showed up in my inbox this morning, and it focuses on a topic near and dear to my heart: ebook formatting. One might think...Continue reading
Video: Why eBook Text Layout is Terrible
Ever wonder why the ebook you’re reading on a Kindle rarely looks as nice as the edition? Computerphile sat down with Professor Steven Bagley of the University of Nottingham, who...Continue reading
J K Rowling’s New eBook Looks Like $18 of Crap on the Nook and Kindle
Publishers like to justify their ridiculous ebook prices by claiming to offer great value for the price. I’m sure that’s what Hachette was thinking when they set the ebook price...Continue reading