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Originally Posted by AThirstyMind
Last night a client tried to upload to KDP a mobi file that I had produced through Calibre. KDP gave the message 'file not supported'. I reconverted it with HTML and MobiPocket but then had no NCX file. That uploaded fine.
The mobi opened for Previewing beautifully on Kindle Previewer, personal Kindle Fire, personal iPad and Kindle for PC app.
Anyone else have this problem? None of my other clients have mentioned a glitch with a Calibre generated mobi so far.
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This problem has been known for nearly a month, please see here:
http://bit.ly/LHD8N4
Amazon, as Kovid will tell you, rejected books throughout 2009 through mid-2011; a woman who wanted to produce a mobi complained on the Calibre forum in 2011; Calibre was tweaked to solve one problem, and they worked for a while, but Amazon has now again taken the position that they will not accept Calibre-generated mobi's. If your client's OTHER books have gotten through, you may have cheated death on those--but I'd highly recommend you find another way to make
professional mobis for which you are selling your services as a formatter.
By the way: unless you have express written legal consent to upload books for your clients, which authorizes you to bind them, contractually, to Amazon, uploading someone else's books, even a client's, is against Amazon's Terms of Service. Uploading creates a contract by and between the author/publisher and Amazon (like when you click off all those wee boxes). If someone else (like you) does the uploading, the contract is, technically, null and void, because you can't bind another individual to a contract. IF something goes bad down the road, one side or the other could argue that no contract EVER existed between your client and Amazon. One of the other companies on the Professional Converter's List lost their standing over this, FWIW. Will you get caught? Unlikely--but if you do, all the weight of the non-existence of that contract will fall on you--not to mention, you'll have avowed that you had the right to publish that book, and owned all the necessary rights--
posing as someone else. Might want to give that some ponderment, while you're contemplating your Calibre issue.
Hitch