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Old 06-15-2015, 04:00 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
Amazon do already have a mechanism whereby some content is only available on certain devices. So technically, they could do it easily.
I've run into those in the past. Often comic books, if I remember correctly. I'm sure they could do it. I'm just not certain they're prepared to give KDP uploaders the power to veto a fallback version of their ebook.

It would solve a lot of problems IMO, though. For those who don't want to take the time to make sure their book degrades gracefully on older devices, they can simply make the choice to not have a mobi-only version of their book available. They may lose a few sales, but they won't have angry customers complaining about the horrible formatting of a version of the book (that "I paid good money for!") the content-provider couldn't be bothered to make nice.

Something about just letting the mobi chips "fall where they may" rubs me the wrong way, I guess. If it's there for sale, then I believe it needs to be right(ish). If it wasn't available for those devices ... then so be it. That's a different kettle of fish.

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