The Kindle software loaded the 300-page book very quickly and displayed everything just how it should be, as shown in the screen shot above. I tested the Textbook Creator by importing the 1914 PDF edition of that hallowed tome, Calculus Made Easy, which has a lot of complex calculations, which could be easily messed up in an ebook conversion. The program delivers output in Amazon’s puzzling KPF format, which, I believe, stands for Kindle Print (or Page) Format, which makes a book accessible on e-readers together with a variety of useful features as mentioned above. You can import single pages, sections or whole books, so long as they are in PDF format. You’ll need a PDF file if you’re importing a book or part of a book. ![]() The package download for a Mac is 34Mb and requires around 84Mb of disk space to install. Software downloads are available for Mac OS X 10.8 or later or Windows 7 or later. Buy Once, Read Everywhere - read eTextbooks on the most popular devices students use, including Fire tablets, iPad, iPhone, Android tablets and smartphones, Mac, and PC.Dictionary - find definitions and Wikipedia information for difficult terms to improve retention.Flashcards - create flashcards and study important terms, concepts, and definitions in each chapter with a simple, easy-to-use interface.Students can add their own notes and easily access them from one location. Notebook - capture key passages, images and bookmarks and automatically add them to the notebook.Multi-Color Highlighting - highlight and categorize key concepts for easy reference.We look forward to seeing how authors use the new tool and getting their feedback to guide us in adding more features to KDP EDU over time.”Īmazon says books created with Kindle Textbook Creator can offer features including: The current software available is a beta version and Amazon says additional features will become available, hopefully including interactivity.Ĭhuck Kronbach, Director, Kindle Direct Publishing, says, “Kindle Textbook Creator makes it easy for anyone to take any PDF and create a richly featured and widely available eTextbook. ![]() Textbooks and other educational material such as course materials with complex content such as graphs, charts and equations can be created. ![]() The company claims the downloadable software includes features that enhance learning, such as dictionary look-up, notebook, highlighting and flashcards. Amazon has released new Kindle Textbook Creator software which helps authors and publishers build and convert textbooks from the PDF format to, well, to the PDF format really, but a bit better for ebooks.
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