Not exact matches
With its emphasis on ease of use in a reasonably powerful editing environment, it's likely to be a good option for publishers who want more control than a fully - automated service offers, but with a less «techie» approach than first - generation desktop conversion and editing tools
like Calibre, Sigil or Amazon's
KindleGen.
That is where
KindleGen's auto - conversion will fail you miserably, because it can not make decisions
like that for you.
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.
That meant that instead of 1280 px wide, I might as well format my own images at 1000px wide (because
KindleGen rules: it WILL process the images whether I
like it or not — nothing gets on the Kindle store unless it's gone through a
KindleGen processing), and control the quality at the same time.
Just
like when working with EpubCheck, you will have to travel back in time to the days of the command prompt to run
KindleGen, since it has no GUI support.
To say thanks, eBook Architects has been looking for ways to give back to the open source community, such as assisting in the launch of the #ePrdctn Wiki and by maintaining and spreading great tools
like epub - applescripts and
kindlegen - drop - app.