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My next little grumble with Smashwords is the necessity of using the meatgrinder if you want access to all their features, specifically the alternate formats and preview.
I create my own epubs and submit those, but until I get around to stripping all the carefully managed formatting to let it go through the meatgrinder (which I still haven't done), my books are up there with no preview (important) and no alternative formats (worries me less than the preview). They have been quite slow to address this shortcoming, mostly - I suppose - because most of their publishers submit Word documents.
It seems to me (as a programmer), that extracting previews and html formats from an epub should not be too hard. I know there are issues with generating Kindle formats - you can't use the Amazon kindlegen for commercial purposes - which means you would have to find another way.
The main reason why I would like to have the Kindle version available is a grumble against Amazon and a big plus for Smashwords. Amazon won't give me access to discounting unless I go exclusive with KDP Select - which I would rather not do. Smashwords has an excellent coupon system, so it would be better for me if a Kindle edition was available from Smashwords (at the moment I rely on people to know that they can do their own conversions with Calibre or kindlegen).
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