It's been a couple of years since Amazon introduced their primary reflowable ebook format, KF8, and while there's been some tinkering with typography mods and stuff, they haven't changed the basic model of ebook rendering: reflowable vs fixed page.
That may be changing.
Here are two looks at some of the new capabilities coming to the Kindle ecosystem:
http://the-digital-reader.com/2016/0...t-screenshots/
https://medium.com/@jiminypan/kindle...4e5#.36vc7nlnx
More at the sources.
There's some fun stuff coming.
I think the really bigg impact will be on magazines.
That may be changing.
Here are two looks at some of the new capabilities coming to the Kindle ecosystem:
http://the-digital-reader.com/2016/0...t-screenshots/
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Kindle in Motion adds GIF-like animations which can be seen on the Fire tablet and in the Kindle apps for iPad, Android, and iPhone (if you read one of these ebooks on a Kindle, you'll just see the regular ebook). Edit: Kindle in Motion is not to be confused with Kindle A\V, or Kindle with Audio\Video. That format had embedded audio video clips, and debuted in 2010. Amazon has not announced the new format, and they're not even talking about it. |
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Here's what we know so far. Six Kindle in Motion titles are available right now, all from Amazon's publishing division. This includes four original romance titles and two new editions for an Edgar Allan Poe collection and The Secret Garden. The ebooks sport various enhancements like animated covers, video clips, and page backgrounds which can be turned on or off if you don't want to see them while reading. The enhanced versions of the ebooks are limited to portrait mode only, and are quite large (200MB to 400MB). There's no known way for anyone to use KDP to produce this format. I bought several Kindle in Motion titles. The romance titles had embedded videos, but the two public domain titles had animations. |
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So Amazon has released yet another format: Kindle in Motion. It’s not been announced with great fanfare nor officially launched yet but I guess they might be waiting for a larger catalogue. While a lot of people will obviously focus on animations, the beauty of this format is IMHO to be found in “the boring parts”. Those parts are (not so) small details but it does honestly feel like an engineering feat when it comes to eBooks. |
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Full-bleed at last When working with publishers, one of the most popular demand you might deal with is the ability to do full-bleed in reflow. Now, you can’t do that for various reasons, mainly because pagination is achieved using CSS 3 columns — in a iframe. Well, Kindle in Motion can do that. No more forced margins. And this applies to background images too. Text wraps Sure, iBooks Author has been doing this since its launch… but only in fixed-layout. OK, you can now do this with CSS. Bear in mind it’s still an experimental technology which is not supported everywhere though. So basically, this is possible in some EPUB3 Reading Systems right now using shape-outside BUT there’s a little Kindle twist… |
There's some fun stuff coming.
I think the really bigg impact will be on magazines.