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Kindle e-books are being redesigned to be extra interactive and visually appealing, the Christian Science Monitor reported. Amazon announced Kindle Format 8 (KF8) 25th Oct, a new HTML-5 supported format for e-books that helps design-centered books pop.

“As showcased on Kindle Fire, KF8 enables publishers to generate great-looking books in categories that need rich formatting and plan such as children’s picture books, comics and graphic novels, technical and engineering books and cookbooks.

Kindle Format 8 will change the existing Mobi format Amazon used in the past, and allows designers to wish from 150 capabilities such as embedded fonts, drop caps, line spacing, alignment, justification, margin, color, style and border. That means dazzling new visuals and good design for books that rely on images.

The new format is currently only vacant with the new Kindle Fire, but Amazon said it will ultimately be available through Kindle apps and other latest creation e-ink devices like the Kindle Touch.

The new Kindle capabilities now intimidate visual works like coffee table books and cookbooks, which the Christian Science Monitor called “the last bastion of publishing.” Technology Appraisal blogger David Zax agrees, saying that “KF8 threatens to be the first format to scare even those in publishing who have believed that the paperbound book-as-art-object will always have pride of place on the coffee table or nightstand.”

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