Kindle Maximum Image Size

Do you have illustrations meant to fill the available viewing space on a Kindle page? If so, there are a couple of things you need to know:

The dimensions of the viewable area on the Kindle device. Unlike a book cover, which fills the screen at 600 by 800 pixels, pages have margins on all . . . → Read More: Kindle Maximum Image Size

About eBooks and eReaders

On December 27, 2010, Amazon announced that the third-generation Kindle is “the bestselling product in Amazon’s history, eclipsing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7).” On Christmas Day, The Girl With the Dragon Tatoo was the most purchased and most gifted Kindle book on amazon.com. Enough copies of “Eclipse” were sold for Edward Cullen . . . → Read More: About eBooks and eReaders

How to Lend a Kindle book

Amazon just announced (December 30, 2010) that eligible Kindle books can be lent once, for a period of 14 days. They have also provided detailed illustrated instructions on amazon.com.

Briefly, there are two ways to determine if a book is lendable and initiate a loan:

Go to the book’s page in the Amazon Kindle store, . . . → Read More: How to Lend a Kindle book

Kindle book cover size

A Kindle book has two cover images that serve different purposes and cause a lot of confusion:

The cover image that displays on your Kindle or Kindle reading app The cover image in the amazon.com product catalog

Numerous questions posted on the Amazon Digital Text Platform (DTP) Support Forums are about the dimensions and file . . . → Read More: Kindle book cover size

Display Multiple Kindle Samples on One Page

If you have more than one "Kindle for the Web" sample on a single page, the display may be mangled. Yesterday, someone showed me an example on a multiple-post blog page. The second book sample was literally "jumping up" from its own post into the previous post, directly under the first book sample.

If you . . . → Read More: Display Multiple Kindle Samples on One Page


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