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I am not a "formatter" I am a publisher. I swore off Kindle for all but simple text based books a long time ago.
I am curious as to the "problem client" comment.
There are a lot of ways to create a great book (or text). The way the Kindle is right now with any of the options means that many desirable forms of content and presentation for texts is difficult or impossible.
A business that has developed a textbook, for example, that works as an epub3 on a tablet is not a problem are they? There is a reason that educational publishers have in house design departments that work hands in hand with editors and writers, and it's a team. I'm interested in quality. This is my first exposure to people "formatting" or preparing books that are not being published by them. I knew the general idea that an ebook is "text" dumped on a screen was an underlying problem with Kindle. All my students' texts are "defective" on Kindle ... Hard to use or problems with images/tables.
Few students use the Kindle - they use iPads or Surface tablets.
Since y'all are so experienced with Kindle is there a way to improve this? Does Amazon understand what is going on? Like these types of books are so difficult to make work due to their decisions?
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