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Originally Posted by Notjohn
Let me see now: I point to the image with what? The TOC? And I can right click on an image and assign a "semantic" to it? Good grief.
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No offense, but for someone who has published
the "Guide to Kindle Publishing 2016" your technical skills leave somewhat to be desired.
KDP books must have an internal cover image that must be defined in epub2 books via a cover metadata entry and in epub3 books via a cover-image properties attribute. Since Sigil will automatically generate these entries all you have to do is remove the cover html file before you upload your book to KDP. (This step is necessary, because KindleGen might not automatically delete the cover.html file.)
FYI, assuming that you added a cover image with the id
cover.png, Sigil will add the following entries if you create a cover page via Tools > Add Cover...:
a) EPUB2:
content.opf
Code:
<meta content="cover.png" name="cover" />
Code:
<guide>
<reference type="cover" title="Cover" href="Text/cover.xhtml"/>
</guide>
b) EPUB3
content.opf
Code:
<meta content="cover.png" name="cover" />
Code:
<item id="cover.png" href="Images/cover.png" media-type="image/png" properties="cover-image"/>
<guide>
<reference type="cover" title="Cover" href="Text/cover.xhtml"/>
</guide>
nav.xhtml (landmarks nav)
Code:
<li>
<a epub:type="cover" href="../Text/cover.xhtml">Cover</a>
</li>
Quote:
Originally Posted by Notjohn
And this epub will be welcomed at Barnes & Noble, Apple, and Kobo?
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That depends on the apps and epub versions that these booksellers use. All fully epub2/epub3-compliant apps should display the cover image, if you generated it with Sigil. The only difference between books for KDP and other publishers is that you won't have to delete the cover html page.