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 Post subject: Advice for Creating an Amazon Kingle Ebook & SmartGo Book?
Post #1 Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 6:30 pm 
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I'm interesting in writing for the Amazon Kindle & SmartGo format. I was wondering what the recommended practice would be for doing this? Should I use KindleGen, write the book in HTML, use Word then Save As Filtered HTML, use Adobe InDesign, which program for diagrams, etc.? Any other advice you've gained from your experience?

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Post #2 Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2013 12:17 am 
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As for SmartGo Books just ask Anders Kierulf, he is on L19 as smartgo.
I don't know anything about Amazon e-books but I think you should ask John Fairbairn about whole process. He published a lot of books there.

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Post #3 Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2013 12:30 am 
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Yithril probably also knows about the Amazon ebook experience.

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Post #4 Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2013 6:55 pm 
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For anyone else wondering, I found out that for SmartGo Books you can create the book file using a simple txt editor with a customized XML language, and making the extension a .gobook. (Anders Kierulf can provide you with a formatting, help document.) However, you (currently) will not be able to test the file without a Mac/Apple system capable of running SmartGo Kifu.

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Post #5 Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2013 11:25 pm 
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logan wrote:
for SmartGo Books you can create the book file using a simple txt editor with a customized XML language


How to set and apply such a customised XML language for that purpose? How do you generate an advantage over manual editing of the gobook source code in a plain text editor?

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