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Originally Posted by LauraBLough
Tonight I used the "Kindle Kid's Book Creator" to turn my book into something that the Kindle Store could upload. the mobi file I'd created earlier and opened fine on my kindle wouldn't load into the kindle store so I went ahead and downloaded their Creator and that seemed to do the trick. There doesn't seem to be any way to add audio with the Kindle Kids Book Creator but C'est la vie. Its up in the Kindle store now, though it won't be available until Jan- http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00RDQF8JW |
Well, take heart--unless your publisher has a real publisher's agreement with Amazon--in other words, have a direct FTP upload with them, as opposed to uploading via the KDP, like virtually 99% of all small imprints--the audio wouldn't work, anyway. If I make an audio Kids' book for a MOBI, it won't work if it's uploaded at the KDP--the audio is stripped out. Only Amazon-publisher uploaded books can function that way, and from what you've said thus far, I'd be surprised if your publisher has an FTP-relationship with them. (Simply because they're having you roll your own book. Amazon expects approved publishers to be making their OWN books, or paying to have them made professionally, so that the books don't run into issues post-upload.)
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ETA: Also had a heart to heart with the publisher today and we re-negotiated our relationship. Basically they admitted that they weren't doing crap and I said okay fine, but I want more money and they said "Done."
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Well, good--now get them up off their dead asses and get your ePUB uploaded at iTunes, etc. No reason for that to take a single day longer. It's simply uploading the damn file via Transporter. I wonder if they even have that set up?
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