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Originally Posted by JSWolf
The only thing speculated is that Amazon may be accepting ePub submission for conversion to AZW/Mobipocket and are using these publishers as a test bed for this conversion.
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That makes sense to me. Converting ePub files yields more consistent results than converting from the older, looser OEB/OEBPS standard. Allowing publishers to submit ePubs could significantly reduce the occurrence of formatting errors in Kindle books, even if the Kindle never supports ePub (not that there's any incentive for Amazon to do so). Also, it's probably a good test bed/practice run for Kindle's eventual support of Overdrive loans via Whispernet (or email). The plan, as explained to me by my favorite librarian, is to send library ePubs to Amazon for conversion to AZW format as if they were personal documents.
Hmmmmm... I wonder if starting from ePub might make it easier for Amazon to create accurate .apnx files to allow the mobi/azw format to approximate page numbers.