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Typeface: Change the typeface in the Kindle menu; the book font should change accordingly. If you have designed your book to use only a specific font file, please make
sure that you have followed guidelines in section 3.1.9 Text Guideline #9: Customizing
Font Selection . Not following these guidelines could lead to the Kindle settings reverting
to the customer's preferred reading font.
4. Go back to the first page and flip through every page of the book. o
Images: Images should not be too small. Make sure that all text in images is legible.
Large pictures should be scaled to fit the page and display in their entirety on one screen. o
Tables: Tables should appear correctly. Make sure that all text in tables is legible. o
Page numbers: There should not be any references to page numbers in the book, including in the cross-references, TOC, and index. o
Material only included with physical book: There should not be any references to material (such as a CD or DVD) that is only included with the physical book. o
Background settings (reflowable ebooks only): On a Kindle tablet device or
Previewer, confirm that your text is legible in all background color modes (white, black, and sepia). o
Magnification (fixed-layout only): Activate popups/panel view and check that all text content and/or panels have corresponding magnification, no content is overflowing the edge of the screen, and magnified reading order is correct.
10 Kindle Quality Guidelines
Amazon strongly recommends that you verify your exported content before converting it into a Kindle book because some content creation tools format content differently when exported to HTML.
In addition, Amazon encourages you to review the entire book for:
• missing content;
• wrong content;
• typos and complete character support;
• alignment errors;
• forced typeface throughout the entire book (reflowable ebooks) or correct font (fixed-layout ebooks);
• proper paragraph spacing and indenting; and
• forced font color or background color.
These errors negatively affect readability and may require the Amazon team to suppress the title to protect the reader’s experience.
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