Developer Responds To New Kindle Formatting
Amazon’s new Kindle app upgrade means eBooks with video and audio functionality, but don’t expect this interactivity in all titles. Joshua Tallent, Founder/CEO of eBook Architects, a company that formats eBooks, tells eBookNewser that Amazon has not given eBook developers any information on how their new format will work.
“Unless they open it up and make it accessible to people like us, there is nothing really we can do,” said Tallent.
Tallent, who authored a book on how to format eBooks for the Kindle called Kindle Formatting: The Complete Guide, has long been frustrated with Amazon. “I have tried to contact them on numerous occasions and they do not respond,” he said.
For now, Tallent doesn’t have any plans to format books with video or audio for the Kindle. Tallent said that the iBookstore lets developers can test out links and interactive features before publishing, not Kindle. “We can’t even test this thing on the books that we create, unless we first get them up for sale in the Kindle store,” he said.
From the reader’s point of view, this new offering is only really cool if the titles have been designed to be interactive. Hopefully Amazon will form partnerships with developers and publishers so that audio and video are not just features of the app, but are actually features of different books.
