Screenwriter John August, who just published his own book on the Amazon Kindle shares some insights on how to format content with HTML tags & CSS inline styles such that the digital book looks good on the Kindle screen.

John suggests that you should format the book content inside plain <p> tags and not use any fancy CSS styles as Kindle might not be able to format them as expected.

You’ll embed a little CSS style sheet in your HTML, but it’s incredibly basic. Use the default typeface. Stick to <em> and <strong>. Let the Kindle do what it wants to do, and you’ll get good results.

Links and anchors work just as you’d suspect, which makes it quick to build a table of contents, or link back to a webpage.

The individual paragraphs are right justified by default but you can override this setting by using text-align = left or center for any paragraph tags. Also use the <mbp:pagebreak />tag to force a page break in the document.

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