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Originally Posted by Notjohn
Such was my understanding, but there are self-pubbers who regularly use Calibre for this purpose. Most recently, a post on the Kindle Direct Publishing "Ask the Community" forum hotly disputed my advice NOT to use Calibre, saying that he (or she) had published 17 Calibre-generated books.
Is it perhaps the Calibre epub that such publishers successfuly (or so they claim) are using?
Oh, wait! I see that you are saying that a simple 'Mobi 7" file will work, and that only if there's a KF8 variant does the uploading fail?
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They might've done either. calibre is indeed great for making your EPUB. And it is certainly
possible to publish calibre MOBI7s... but that isn't the same as saying you
should. I would suggest using the tools that Amazon tells you to use, i.e. kindlegen to convert any EPUB.
I believe the reason they accept any MOBI is because originally there were other tools for making it, and only afterwards did they buy Mobipocket. But they created KF8, and demand you use their tools if you want to use it.