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Ritzy · 10-15-2013, 02:09 PM

Hi,

I needed to do some minor editing to the design of my kindle book, so I opened the epub version in Sigil, made a few adjustments and saved it. Then I uploaded the epub file to Calibre to convert it to a mobi file for Kindle. Although I was able to convert the file to mobi successfully, it did not display properly in kindle. I tried several things, and finally discovered that the only way my book displays properly is if I changed the mobi file output to "new" in Calibre instead of old. (It took me forever to figure out the problem). But now the problem is that when I attempt to upload that file to Amazon, they won't accept it. I get the following error:

"Your ZIP file contains files in the wrong format. Zip files can only contain HTML files and images. Other formats shouldn't be compressed into a ZIP file. Please refer to our formatting guide for more information."

I have no idea what to do. Someone please help.

Thanks guys.

10-15-2013, 02:09 PM	#1
Ritzy Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2013 Device: Kindle	Please Help ... Formatting/Display Issue when Converting Epub to a "new" Mobi file Hi, I needed to do some minor editing to the design of my kindle book, so I opened the epub version in Sigil, made a few adjustments and saved it. Then I uploaded the epub file to Calibre to convert it to a mobi file for Kindle. Although I was able to convert the file to mobi successfully, it did not display properly in kindle. I tried several things, and finally discovered that the only way my book displays properly is if I changed the mobi file output to "new" in Calibre instead of old. (It took me forever to figure out the problem). But now the problem is that when I attempt to upload that file to Amazon, they won't accept it. I get the following error: "Your ZIP file contains files in the wrong format. Zip files can only contain HTML files and images. Other formats shouldn't be compressed into a ZIP file. Please refer to our formatting guide for more information." I have no idea what to do. Someone please help. Thanks guys.