User`s guide

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers
6 Audio and Video Guidelines
Currently, Kindle Edition with Audio/Video content is available on Fire tablets (2nd generation and later),
iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. Audio and video content is not supported on Kindle e Ink devices
(customers can read the book, but any audio or video is replaced with a message that it is not supported
on this device).
KF8 features are not currently supported in Kindle Edition with Audio/Video content. The file delivered to
Amazon should be a Mobi 7 EPUB with self-contained audio and video or a Mobi 7 .prc file with self-
contained audio and video. (If delivering a .prc, make sure the file was created using the latest version of
KindleGen available from www.amazon.com/kindleformat
).
Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing Platform (KDP) does not currently accept Kindle Edition with
Audio/Video content.
To add audio and/or video content to your Kindle book, follow the guidelines and examples below.
Embedded Video 6.1
To embed a video inside a Kindle book, add a standard HTML 5 tag such as the following:
Example:
<video id="video_1" src="movie.mp4" controls poster="start.jpg" title="Video about
...">
<br/><br/><br/> "There is video content at this location that is not currently
supported for your device. The caption for this content is displayed below."
<br/><br/><br/>
</video>
• src tag: (Required) Identifies the embedded video file.
• title tag: (Required) Identifies the description of the video.
• poster tag: (Required) Identifies the placeholder image file. Users see the placeholder in the
eBook before the video is played. The placeholder could be the first frame of the video or a
representative frame, depending on your preference. (If this file is not specified, a blank black
image is displayed.)
• controls tag: (Required, unless you provide an image for use in starting the video playback)
Tells the Kindle application to display controls for the embedded video.
Note: The Kindle application may render a play button on top of the poster frame. It appears in
the middle of the frame.
• text content: (Required) Devices that do not support video content display the text between the
<video> and </video> tags. If users view this eBook on a device that does not support video,
they see this text instead. (Example: “There is content at this location that is not currently
supported for your device. The caption for this content is displayed below.”)
• id tag: (Optional) Must be unique to the document if it is used.
Streaming Video 6.2
Streaming video is not supported at this time. Use embedded video instead.
Embedded Audio 6.3
To embed an audio file inside a Kindle book, add a standard HTML 5 tag such as the following:
Example:
<audio id="audio_1" src="audio.mp3" controls title="Audio about ...">
<br/><br/><br/>
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