possible to create ebook programmatically? [closed]

Question

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.

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

Many but especially see calibre which can take text in various forms or HTML and convert to epub, mobi etc.