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Originally Posted by Krystl
I guess for me, the problem came with having not understood that amazon et al. actually change something in the product (e-text) through their conversion for sales making it not function the way it did beforehand.  This would only affect the formatting, however, not the copy text, correct? That is new information for me and rather disappointing, actually. When the retailer/device company changes or alters the ebook through conversion or the programming of their devices and the rendering there is errored, than for me that is their fault (provided the ebook renders well on other devices/programs). |
I don't know about other stores, and I don't know how the process works for big publishers. With self-publishers, Amazon allow various formats to be submitted (Word, PDF, Mobi, ePub ...
full list). Most of those will
need to be converted before they can be displayed on a Kindle. I assume that if you upload a Mobi file, the only thing that will be changed is that DRM will be added if you select that option. That's my assumption, though - I don't have any insider knowledge
I get the impression that publishers submit ePubs, which Amazon then converts to Mobi. I'm basing this on the fact that the copyright page tends to say "ePub edition". If I'm right, then the publishers have to take at least some of the blame for not doing the conversion themselves.