Amazon has just released the Kindle Previewer 3. it allows authors and publishers to get a sense on how Their e-books will look on Kindles and Fire tablets using the new typesetting engine.
Last year Amazon released a new font called Bookerly, Which Replaced Caecilia as the new default font for the Kindle Fire line of tablets and Their fleet of apps. Bookerly is a serif font styles of That has been custom-made by Amazon to be as readable across as many different types of screens as possible. Like Google’s Literata, Bookerly is meant to address many of the aesthetic issues surrounding e-book fonts. A few months after Bookerly was released Amazon sought to address the Kindle’s typesetting problems with an all-new layout engine That Introduces better text justification, kerning, drop caps and image positioning.
When publishers and indie authors submit e -books to Amazon it was a total mystery how Their titles would look using the new fonts and layout engine. This mystery should be dispelled with the advent of Kindle Previewer 3, a free tool for PC and MAC.
You can download Kindle Previewer Beta 3 from Amazon.
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