Kindle Formatting

There is a lot of stupid and confusing info for formatting your book for Amazon Kindle. These are the best guides I’ve found so far.

https://kdp.amazon.com/help?topicId=A17W8UM0MMSQX6
http://johnaugust.com/2009/kindle-formatting-for-web-geeks

The ebook Design and Development Guide by Paul Salvette

http://derekjcanyon.blogspot.com/2010/10/step-by-by-step-kindle-ebook-html.html

http://kindleformatting.com/formatting.php

From Kindle Formatting:

Use the custom <mbp:pagebreak /> tags to mark pagebreaks in the text. I suggest you include one in front of every chapter or section.

The Kindle has built-in bookmarks for the Table of Contents and the start of the book’s content. Use the following anchor tags to mark those places in your book: <a name="TOC"/> and <a name="start"/>. Place the anchors right after the page break tag, before any headings or paragraphs.

Smashwords ebook publishing

http://www.smashwords.com/

“Smashwords Distributes your ebook to the Apple iBookstore, Barnes & Noble, Sony Reader Store, Kobo and the Diesel eBook Store
Earn 60% of List Price from Major Ebook Retailers and 85% Net at Smashwords.com”

so it looks like they keep 10% since the Apple iBookstore usually takes 30%. Not bad. Amazon is notable missing from this list.