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@Kovid: this isn't Amazon saying this, it's some forum user who may or may not have his own agenda.
Amazon will accept .mobi files for submission to their site; all are converted into their proprietary .azw format (which I understand is a variation of mobi). DRM is applied to Amazon books at the upload stage; not in advance; and the DRM coding is added then. Not having any experience submitting a .mobi file to Amazon I can't say what would happen if I did and tried to apply DRM.
But DRM isn't really my issue. My issue is whether the formatting preserved in the .mobi file would get corrupted by Kindle; ie., whether the Kindle would override the .mobi coding as Kindle does with HTML and apply things like automatic indents, which is the curse we're trying to work around. (I'd like to know which Kindle genius thought overriding someone's paragraph formatting was a good idea.) When I tested a Calibre .mobi file that was converted to .azw through Kindle's free service for Kindle owners (I don't have a Kindle, an acquaintance did this for me), the formatting was preserved.
Has anyone ever tried to upload a book in a .mobi format created by Calibre to Amazon Kindle? If so, what were the results?
Cheers,
Michelle
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