possible to create ebook programmatically?

python publishing multimedia
akonsu picture akonsu · Sep 25, 2011 · Viewed 7.7k times · Source

I am investigating whether it is possible to generate an ebook, say, a Kindle book, programmatically. are there any libraries, open source or proprietary? in particular, for python.

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Erik Terwan picture Erik Terwan · Sep 25, 2011

An ebook or epub is just xhtml with some meta info and stuff. Every page is a xhtml file.

Here is a tutorial on How to Make an ePub eBook by Hand.

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