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Originally Posted by fbrzvnrnd
I explained myself wrong: I know kindle doesn't support video in kf8, but I didn't know he supported it in kpf.
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Indeed; there are instructions--for lack of a better word to describe them--about how to insert media in the KC (Kindle Create) User's Guide. But what you gain with the media, you more than lose with the format (
fixed-layout). You
cannot do embedded media with a reflowable KC-generated file.
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Sure, you can send an EPUB3 file, but it seems to me inaccurate say that Amazon "support" EPUB3: kindle supports some of the standards EPUB3 also uses. HTML5, CSS3 or ncx, for example, are not "EPUB3" format, but standards used in EPUB3 too.
I think there are more EPUB3 specifications that Amazon kf8 does not support than the ones it support (javascript, video & audio, media overlay...).
but I understand your point of view, it is about shades of meaning.
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It
is shades of meaning. Yes, KF8
doesn't support the multimedia circus. Or JS, and that's probably more about providing tech support than actual incapability, is my guess. I can say without
any hesitation that after 11 years of dealing with KDP-self-publishing-authors, the idea of trying to provide tech support, around embedding media or, gods forbid,
scripting....makes me want to run screaming into the night. Or day. Or
anyplace, screaming.
Nonetheless, KDP
does send people to the IDPF standards, for ePUB3.0. Not the old 2.0; not elsewhere. They do
also reference W3 schools for HTML and CSS, yes. (I completely understand why they do that, too.) I mean, the kids gotta start somewhere, if they're not going to do Word or KC.
So...yes, it's degrees or shades.
Hitch