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Originally Posted by Hitch
It's trying to tell you to remove the cover.html file from the ePUB prior to putting it through KindleGen/Previewer to create the MOBI file. As the cover.html file is not supported, then, no, there isn't any way to use SVG for the cover.
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That's exactly what I assumed. I could of course remove the cover.html file before compiling the epub with KindleGen, but since the message displayed by KindleGen is technically neither a warning nor an error message and it'll ignore the cover.html file anyway, I decided to keep in the epub as it is needed for the proper display in ADE.
(I did of course add the required cover image metadata information.)
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Originally Posted by Hitch
This is primarily because the cover images submitted in Step 4 at the KDP supplant those in the files uploaded in Step 5. The old "product image" files (now requested at 1563x2500px) now get embedded into the mobi file created by KDP. This was implemented, along with other changes to the workflow, by Amazon, due to so many self-publishers uploading Word files that did not have cover files set correctly--so now Amazon takes it upon themselves to ensure that the cover gets created and embedded in the mobi file.
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Thanks! I wasn't aware of this. Does this mean that it's pointless to embed a properly referenced cover image in an epub intended for KDP because KDP'll always use the "product image" uploaded in Step 4?