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Old 09-22-2010, 09:29 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by jphphotography View Post
I have a website and I've tried uploading a .mobi file and even writing a simple html page with a link but when viewed on the kindle they either come up as "cannot load page" or it'll open the .mobi file in the webpage itself which results in just a bunch of garbage text.
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You need to define the MIME type on your web server. Either of these should work for Kindle books:

application/x-mobipocket-ebook
application/octet-stream

Last edited by trekchick; 09-22-2010 at 09:31 PM. Reason: clear up confusing typo
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