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Originally Posted by Notjohn
I have no clue on how to make my books ET compatible. But they all are.
Am I just lucky?
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NJ: well, if memory serves, HTML-wise, your books are rather simple, yes? One paragraph of text after another, no charts, tables, blockquotes, etc.? Effectively laid out like fiction, right?
That's the secret.
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Originally Posted by jhowell
No, not at all. By the way, what are your favorite lottery numbers?  |
@jhowell: I hear ya. The problem with that one book--a table. Not *all* tables, mind you; ONE of them. The widest one (6 columns). We made it into an image, and ka-blammo!, it's ET-compatible.
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Seriously, Amazon added the most commonly used EPUB/HTML features to ET at the start and have been adding less common ones over time. In my testing using a large collection of EPUBs from a variety of sources well over 90% convert to support ET using the latest version of Kindle Previewer 3. So I would say that not having a problem with ET conversion is the typical experience.
Perhaps they have gotten to the point where they feel that it is better for them to force book publishers avoid the remaining unimplemented EPUB features than it would be to add them to ET. If so, they really should update the Publishing Guidelines to be more specific.
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Yes, that's my take. I think that 99% of fiction would, indeed, convert w/o much issue. Anything else, though...mmmm.
Suffice it to say that I'm really annoyed by the whole thing. I mean, hey, you want a set of restrictions or whatever, obeyed? GREAT. Put out a roadmap, or a treasure map, or something. This throwing darts into the black void, hoping you hit the target, much less the bullseye...that's aggravating as crap.
Hitch