User`s guide

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers
External Link Guidelines 3.12
External links within Kindle books should be present only if they directly enhance the reader experience
and the content of the title as determined by Amazon. Some examples of this include:
• Links to multimedia content directly related the content of title;
• Links to additional ancillary material (e.g., checklists, assessment forms, craft patterns, and
similar printable materials);
• Links to topical websites (e.g., link to Whitehouse.gov in a Kindle book about the American
government);
• Social media related to the book or author (e.g., Twitter hashtag).
Some examples of prohibited links include:
• Links to pornography;
• Links to commercial eBook store sites other than Amazon;
• Links to web forms that request customer information (e.g., email address, physical address or
similar);
• Links to illegal, harmful, infringing, or offensive content;
• Links that are malicious in intent (e.g., virus, phishing, or similar).
Amazon reserves the right to remove links in its sole discretion.
4 Creating Fixed-Layout Children’s Books
Certain books have elements with fixed dimensions and orientation that do not allow fonts to be resized
or text to be reflowed. For example, children’s books and graphic novels have full-page images with text
set precisely in relation to the background art. To accommodate these media types, KF8 introduces new
metadata fields and corresponding guidelines.
Fixed-layout books do not support reflowable text and should only be used when the entire book is a
fixed-layout format; books cannot be partially reflowable or partially fixed-layout.
To demonstrate best practices in creating fixed-layout books, Amazon provides a children’s book
example at www.amazon.com/kindleformat
(under the KindleGen Examples heading). This example is a
demonstration of how to create content to take advantage of fixed-layout with Region Magnification. It is
not intended to be an HTML tutorial.
Metadata Fields Supporting Fixed-Layout Books 4.1
The OPF file specifies metadata necessary for fixed-layout books. For a demonstration, see the children’s
book example at www.amazon.com/kindleformat
(under the KindleGen Examples heading).
Metadata
Description
Layout can be specified using one of the
following metadata fields:
1) <meta property="rendition:layout">pre-
paginated</meta>
2) <meta name="fixed-layout" content="true"/>
Required. Identifies the book as having a
fixed layout.
Valid values for rendition:layout
metadata are reflowable or pre-
paginated. The default value is
reflowable.
Valid values for fixed-layout metadata
are true or false. The default value is
false.
<meta name="original-resolution"
Required. Identifies the original design
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