New Amazon format comes to replace AZW, enable illustrated books

[Andre Jute]

Idiot's guide here (impressive!):
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html...

General introduction and overview for the more knowledgable here:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html...

Sign up here to be an early adopter, be informed when the new tools become available:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/html-forms-c...

Expert stuff: HTML 5 Tags, CSS supported:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html...

Discussion Group
http://www.amazon.com/forum/kindle%20...

[Christopher]

Wow! Very exciting. I signed up. If it proves viable (and if the market is there), then I definitely have some projects slated for that route.

[Andre Jute]

You can be the ROBUST trail breaker, Christopher. Keep us informed if they tell you something.

I have several illustrated books -- check my design books and engineering books -- but no idea when there will be time to transfer them.


Also Designing and Building Special Cars etc

[Christopher]

I have a couple animator-illustrator friends from my VeggieTales/Barney days that are pretty interested in this development. I'll probably partner with one of them on a test book and see how it goes. The big question for us, though, is whether it is more worthwhile to put our time into book apps for kids, rather than Kindle versions for kids. We're building an illustrated book app right now. All the functionality and interactivity is there, but I'm not sure if the numbers are there.