Continuing to Push KDP In a New Direction

Dear KDP:

I converted my .epub file to the .docx format and was able to open it in Kindle Create. My reaction is as follows.

I would like the cover and some of the images and videos to be able to bleed to the edges of the screen.

It looks like Kindle Create doesn't implement position:absolute, float:left/right; z-index:-1, font-family:sans-serif, @font-face, @keyframes, small caps, audio/video autoplay, JavaScript, border-radius, transform:rotate, filter:drop-shadow, margin, image aspect-ratio, body background-color, text-indent, image alpha-channel, or text-decoration:none.

What it does well is page-break-inside:avoid, font color/size, section re-ordering, small inline images, drop-cap, div background-color, hanging indent, and white-space:nowrap.

When I tried to add paragraph first-line indents, I noticed that it only affected the paragraph where the cursor was positioned. When I tried ctrl-a to select all, nothing was selected. Each paragraph would need modified individually.

You can imagine how reluctant I am to go through the daunting task of making the changes with Kindle Create. The book is around 90k words. I have about 40 original music cues that would need to be inserted individually, and about 20 videos. But without position:absolute and z-index:-1, videos and still images wouldn't be displayed properly.

I understand that probably the vast majority of KDP's submissions need to be guided through the process with Kindle Create so that crazy-quilt books can be published as nice-looking books. Kindle Create perfectly fills that need. Some writer/designers, however, want to push the edges of the standard novel into entirely new areas and create an entity that needs a new name, like the meNovel, for multimedia eNovel, or something like that. It's innovation, creating something that didn't exist before.

I can't believe that one of Jeff Bezos' companies wouldn't be interested in innovation. Jeff Bezos' company? Amazon changed how the world buys things. William Shatner was able to break the record as the oldest astronaut. This is a very small innovation by comparison, to let a writer/designer position a stylish video behind the text to play as the reader continues reading. A book already completed in the ePub3 format. This suggestion, of course, is coming from a very insignificant writer, but imagine if Fifty Shades of Gray had been a multimedia novel. Can you imagine the number of downloads?

I hope KDP will open a new gate for writer/designers like me to try new things. The gate that's available now is too restrictive.