How to Include Images in Kindle Books

Updated on October 30, 2019
Once you have your images in your HTML for your Kindle
book and have followed the instructions for creating a great
Kindle ebook image you need to be able to include it in
your book when you create the mobi file. You can convert
your HTML file to mobi using Calibre or you can use the
Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) to create your
mobi file and set it up for sale.
Make Sure Your Book HTML is Ready for
Conversion
The benefit of using HTML to create your book is that you
can then use a browser to read through it and correct any
errors. When you’re including images you should be sure to
check your book in a browser to make sure all the images
are displaying correctly.
Remember that ebook viewers like the Kindle are typically
less sophisticated than web browsers, so your images may
not be centered or aligned. What you should really be
checking is that they all display in the book. It is very
common to have an ebook with missing images because
they were not in the directory referenced by the HTML file.
Once the images are all displaying correctly in the HTML,
you should zip the entire book directory and all the images
into one file. This is important because you can only upload