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Originally Posted by Turtle91
A "very vague answer" from the company you are paying to perform this conversion???!!!??
IMHO they are the ones that should be telling you what is required. If they aren't doing that then you should charge them a "question avoidance fee" up to their entire commission. Of course that may require finding a different company that has some customer service!
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Hey, Turt:
Bookbaby is just an aggregator that outsources its conversions. They'd have no idea what to tell this guy.
The problem the OP has is that BookBaby, like all aggregators, has a "one ring to rule them all" mindset--they want one ePUB that they FTP to the various retailers, to make the books. Now, that sounds really cool--except you can't make a fixed-format Kindle book with an ePUB, not this way. In fact, not any way.
For this book to come out correctly, at a minimum, you need two books--a mobi and an ePUB, and possibly 3, one mobi and two ePUBs, (of these, one for iBooks and Kobo and one for Nook). Heavily illustrated books can't be made the way that this is being done, not and look right.
(Not to mention: all the retailers have different filesize limits. You have a 20mb limit at NookPRess, but 50mb at Amazon. You have almost no limits, really, at iBooks, but I know Kobo has limits). Kobo's in-house conversion process, from the uploaded BookBaby ePUB, uses the Calibre API; Amazon uses the "new" KG...man.
Seriously, if you're going to use a "one ePUB to rule them all" approach...what type of illustrations or images do you have? Are they illustrative in that they are detailed diagrams for "how-to," or are they landscape images, or kids' images, or...? Do the illustrations have text that has to be readable, or...? If you'll give us some detail, it will help us help you. (Or consider asking BB if they'll take a mobi if you give it to them. I know that Inscribe will do that when asked.)
Hitch