How to do Amazon kindle periodical Mobi
I’ve spent quite a lot of googling before I’ve found good guide for kindle formating. Good start was this two things:
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5379565/kindle-periodical-format
- https://github.com/mhl/guardian-for-kindle
But there were still some pieces missing. So I had to find out myself.
First of all there must be preserved proper content type in x-metadata tag, otherwise kindlegen will not compile your .opf properly.
<x-metadata><output content-type=”application/x-mobipocket-subscription-magazine” encoding=”utf-8”/></x-metadata>.
Next in .ncx structure is not necessary to contain <navPoint class=”periodical”>. Classes “section” and “article” are sufficient.
There are some other issues, but not that difficult.
You can download a sample code in my dropbox folder: sample kindle periodical
