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Originally Posted by yourvirtualwizar
Hello,
I am an author and I hired a POD formatter to take my eBook and convert it to epub so I can sell it on Amazon for the Kindle.
I really don't know the epub lingo so please bear with me.
I gave the formatter tweets and code to insert in the ebook so people reading the ebook on a kindle could tweet out that they are reading the book, etc. I gave her this type of code:
[Promotional text deleted - MODERATOR]
https://twitter.com/home?status=Elev...rtualassistant
I created the code using this site http://www.sharelinkgenerator.com/
The problem is that the formatter is getting these errors and she believes it is the tweets I sent to her. That may be the case but I need to verify.
Can you help me please? Here are the epub errors she is receiving:
• ERROR: /OEBPS/book-part-1.html(71): value of attribute "href" is invalid; must be a URI
• ERROR: /OEBPS/book-part-1.html(106): value of attribute "href" is invalid; must be a URI
• ERROR: /OEBPS/book-part-1.html(157): value of attribute "href" is invalid; must be a URI
Can anyone identify the errors for me as the formatter is doing the conversion to epub for me?
Can anyone resolve the error for me?
The formatter says I have to take out the URL out of the code and possible the .com which means that will be a problem for integrity of the tweet.
Thank you to whatever help you can offer.
Janine  |
Welcome to the forums.
Do you know whether the formatter has made your ebook into ePub2 (the format used by virtually all ereaders now available) or ePub3 (the format which has been discussed for years as the coming thing, though I don't think any ereader can use it)?
Two suggestions:
- There is a forum devoted to ePub formatting; you will likely get more help there than in this forum.
- Whether your post is moved to the ePub forum or stays here we will need to know whether your ebook is ePub2 or ePub3, and we will need to know what are the contents of those three lines.
If your ebook is ePub2 I think you will need to have a URI as the value of attribute html. I don't think you can send a tweet with an ePub2 ebook. I know virtually nothing about ePub3.
By the way, I think you'll find that all Amazon ebooks are in mobi or KF8 format, and that Kindle readers can't read ePub formatted ebooks.