Re: Re: Automating creation of eBooks in Mobipocket format

Marion Gropen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.culture.literature.ebook-community
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On May 1, 2008, at 7:52 AM, brianblumus wrote:

> I agree with you on Windows; I have two machines on my desk, one
> running Windows XP and the other a Mac. But here I'm talking about a
> dedicated server, which runs our website remotely using Linux, rather
> than a desktop machine.
>
> I could definitely use WINE or even Mobipocket Creator if it we were
> generating the eBooks locally. But the way our system works, every
> time a user of our web-based software uploads text and clicks
> "Publish," we automatically create HTML of the text which we then need
> to turn into a Mobipocket formatted eBook.
>
> Is there a way to generate Mobipocket eBooks this way? Will WINE work
> on a remote Linux server? Is there a Linux based utility that will
> convert from HTML to Mobipocket?


I don't know about creation utilities, but I suspect that the  
simplest way might be to run Bootcamp  or something similar.  
(Bootcamp runs on the Mac 'nix version)


Marion Gropen
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