Optimize your images to the highest quality possible within the file size limit before inputting your files
into KindleGen.
Not exact matches
Luckily, Amazon provides their own software,
KindleGen, which easily converts the EPUB format
into MOBI for upload to the Kindle store.
Scrivener allows you to convert your work
into all the file types required by the different publishing platforms, including mobi files for Kindle using the
KindleGen tool from Amazon.
You need to convert the EPUB format
into the MOBI / KF8 format by using a command - line program from Amazon.com called
KindleGen, which is available for free from Amazon.com.
Amazon's command - line tool for developers to create MOBI files is called
KindleGen, and it is also integrated
into many eBook - making programs like Calibre.
If you are a perfectionist who isn't afraid to get her hands dirty with some nerdiness, this section discusses the actual structure of an EPUB file and how to convert EPUB files
into a MOBI / KF8 eBook with the Amazon.com
KindleGen program.
FWIW, I hand roll mine
into epub format, then convert that through
kindlegen for upload.
Once the file is converted by the
KindleGen, the same should be dragged and dropped
into the Previewer to preview and ensure if the format is done well, as required.
The best practice is to create each format independently, not just auto - convert an ePub
into the Kindle format with the
KindleGen tool.