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Originally Posted by Notjohn
(And thanks for the reassurance that the *.mobi created on a computer by Kindlegen or Kindle Previewer is NOT identical to the *.mobi created by the conversion process online at KDP. I am glad to know that!)
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That's not what he meant, or, rather, you've misunderstood.
The file that is delivered to the
customer is not the same as the file created by KindleGen/KP. The "Step 6" file and the KP/KG desktop or command-line generated file ARE the same.
And, yes, the source file archival copy is included in the final file uploaded to Amazon "for sale," if you either a) upload an ePUB at KDP or b) create a mobi file on your desktop using KG/KP. The archival copy is the ePUB. The K8 copy is the K8 (or, to not confuse matters further, the ePUB emulation that works on mobi devices, in a mobi wrapper). The K7 copy is actually an old-style prc, for all intents and purposes. For that matter, if you uploaded a zipped HTML file, for all I know, that archival copy is retained as well (I don't see why it wouldn't, as for all intents and purposes, it's an ePUB sans OPF and NCX), but I can't speak to that as I've never done it, going straight to fully-made eBooks from the beginning, even when they were MBPC mobi's.
Hitch