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Originally Posted by chyron8472
Is this an ebook creation tool problem? No.
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I'd agree that the missing word(s) example probably isn't a problem with the ebook creation tool, but rather one of poor or non-existent checking. Lack of chapter markers, though, is, in most cases, most likely down to the tool and the method used to create the ebook.
The presence of chapter markers in a Kindle ebook relies on the inclusion of an NCX file in the compilation of the ebook. However none of the three main tools used to create MOBI ebooks - Mobipocket Creator, Kindlegen, and Amazon's self-publishing KDP interface - provides for the automated creation of an NCX file.
With
Mobipocket Creator, you have to create the NCX file separately, do an initial build without it, then manually add it to the content files and manually edit the OPF file to add pointers to it, before doing a final build of the MOBI file.
With
Kindlegen, you have to have created an OPF and NCX file prior to building the book.
And then you have
Amazon's KDP web interface, where authors and small publishers can upload books in a variety of formats (such as HTML and MS Word) and have them converted by Amazon's processor into MOBI format for publishing in the Kindle bookstore - that processor doesn't include any facility for creating or even
including an NCX file.
So... while I'd agree that larger publishers should really be doing a much better job, I'd also have to say that Amazon hasn't really done much, so far, to provide tools that would help smaller, less technically minded publishers or indie authors create full-featured, technically complete Kindle ebooks.