your time's up, jim... *** here's that information on the auxiliary files required to create an .epub or a .mobi file... first, get yourself the appropriate tool to zip an .epub... windows tool to zip a folder up into an .epub:
mac tool to zip a folder up into an .epub:
next, get yourself the kindle previewer, which gives you the ability to convert .epub into .mobi via drag-n-drop...
now download this .zip file, which contains the folder of files needed for the "jungle" example we've been using... all of these files (except obviously the cover-image) were generated automatically from the z.m.l. "master-format".
unzip the file. inside the folder, you will find the auxiliary files i've been talking about, specifically an .opf file and an .ncx file. you can use these files as "templates" for other books as well... i do not understand every wrinkle in these files, but they work. the .epub "validates", and the generated .mobi file is complete. the requirements for these files are extremely obtuse and crazy, but these examples work, so i believe in them like superstition. (anyone who enlightens me, or improves them, will be thanked. and, obviously, i have not done this process on the p.c. myself.) so drop the folder of files on your .epub-zipper, and you will get an .epub file out. (on the p.c. side, you might have to run the zipper program.) then run the kindle previewer and drop the .epub file inside it, and it will auto-generate a .mobi file... now you know how to make e-books. congratulations. believe me, there are a _lot_ of humans out there _right_now,_ struggling with the problem of doing this, banging their heads against the wall, because nobody made it easy for them to do... -bowerbird