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Originally Posted by anamardoll
Speaking as someone who just went through this, publishers have two real options (I'm ignoring PDF/doc silliness): they can submit ePUB to Amazon or they can submit mobi to Amazon. And the mobi... comes from a conversion.
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That's a good point, which I hadn't considered.
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Originally Posted by anamardoll
And it's my understanding that Amazon STILL converts the mobi in a mobi-to-mobi process, DRM or not.
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That I didn't know. I'd assumed they didn't, because I couldn't see any reason for them to do so.
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Originally Posted by anamardoll
It's not the publisher's fault if Amazon has implemented a proprietary format and refused to release tools for developing within that format directly. Yes, the publisher should proof the results, BUT at the end of the day, there's not a lot the publisher can do to force Amazon to make mobi easier to work in. I do think that the Big 6 can and should hire a whole division for this issue, but if we're talking an indie author, it's another thing entirely.
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To clarify, when I've complained about publishers in this thread, I've been thinking of the big 6. As you said in a later post, Amazon don't make it especially easy to proof the results, since you have to buy a copy of your book. I've done that with my books, and I'd imagine every indie could afford to do the same. The big 6 can certainly afford to do so.