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October 21, 2011 06:59 am GMT
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Amazon Throws A Minor Curveball With HTML5-Powered Kindle Format 8
Amazon has announced an update to the Kindle file format integrating many HTML5 tags and CSS attributes. Many expected a concession by Amazon in the form of an EPUB-compatible upgrade, and this comes as a slight surprise — but it's a natural evolution of the format, really, and of course everyone is already familiar with the toolset.In a way this makes Kindle formatted books nothing more than extremely long webpages, but that's really a matter of perspective. Flexible layouts and well-known rules for handling text, fonts, images, and so on mean that the file format is adaptable to many devices, zoom levels, resolutions, and so on.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/pafOPIckCUg/
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