Kindle Export Not Picking Up AUTHOR: Meta-Data, Though TITLE Picks Up

Wed, 12/03/2008 - 10:09 — beagley

Hi,
I've seen several places that if you edit your source file and put "Title:" and "Author:" tags at the top, when you export the Kindle format, that information will be carried over.

Both Title and Author will show up in the Book Info section of Stanza Desktop, but when exporting to Kindle:

Title works.

Author does not work.

Any help with this would be great,
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Stanza Support

Tue, 04/28/2009 - 18:56 — Jen Richard (not verified)

Notification of Fix?

Can I be placed on a list to be notified with this is corrected? I am using Stanza to export to Kindle and I, too, am having the issue with Author. Thanks.

-Jen

Sun, 03/29/2009 - 12:02 — spencermg

Kindle - Title, Author problem

My equip: Kindle 2, iMac, OS-X, Stanza v 1.0.0 beta 16

On export from Stanza to Kindle, Kindle not getting Title [Home presented as "Unknown].

Tried changing Title in /View/Book Info then doing save & export. This did not work.

Exported to .txt file; inserted an additional cr/lf before Title:; saved .txt file; exported file to Kindle.
Title appeared correctly in Home page, but author did not appear in listing [author did appear correctly in opened file].

Conclusion:
Book Info in Stanza/Kindle is quite white-space sensitive. Work-arounds here should probably concentrate on spacing in header on .txt files.

Mon, 12/15/2008 - 15:14 — Tass (not verified)

Thanks for fix

I came online to add to this thread, then saw you'd posted an update. The fix works great with books tranferred to my Kindle. Thanks!

Tue, 12/16/2008 - 13:46 — e-pack (not verified)

Still not working for me.

Please tell me exactly what you are doing that gets the Kindle to recognize the author. I've opened txt, doc, and pdf files with Stanza beta 15, edited and/or added title and author metadata, and then exported as azw, prc, and mobi. No matter what I do, though the title metadata shows up properly, the author isn't showing up on my Kindle. Furthermore, when I open the exported book with Stanza, even it says author: unknown. And by the way, though I can copy and paste into the metadata fields, if I try to enter text directly, I cannot put spaces between words.

Tue, 12/16/2008 - 15:24 — Emily

Hmm, I think you're right

Hmm, I think you're right about not getting the author recognized when exporting to Kindle, though it does seem to work well when exporting to other formats. The author is getting picked up when exporting to Kindle format, as you'll see, but it isn't getting put in quite the right place (i.e., it's in a subheading instead of the main heading). I'll tell our engineers to look into this, and we'll try to fix it soon.

By the way, there is a new method for entering title and author information: just edit Book Info in the View menu and then Save As... or Export.

Mon, 12/15/2008 - 15:20 — Emily

Fantastic! That's what we

Fantastic! That's what we like to hear. Thanks for letting us know.

Sat, 12/06/2008 - 12:34 — Emily

We've had a few other reports

We've had a few other reports of this problem, and we're looking into it.