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Originally Posted by cybmole
But I am still mystified how it made it thu amazons validation & release procedures while full of weird alternative characters.
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To my knowledge, there is no "validation" procedure for selling books through Amazon (not for flagging any "weird alternative characters" anyway). If kindlegen successfully produces a kindlebook from the sources, then it's a valid kindlebook. The only way a kindlebook would get flagged/pulled for errors is if enough customers complain about errors. Since it took you a long time to even notice the alternative characters (which are perfectly valid , by the way) WERE actually alternative characters, it's not likely the average reader would ever take notice.
It's a little weird, granted, but not really so mysterious. Ebook creators can do all kinds of weird things to their ebooks that most customers will never notice if they never "pop the hood" (which means the vast majority of customers). Perhaps it's a form of watermarking, or perhaps a personal quirk of the author that the ebook's creator simply obliged. Either way, it's not something that Amazon's release procedures would "catch".