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Originally Posted by slowsmile
@JSWolf...Sorry but you're wrong. Kindle have brought out several apps in the past -- Kindle Text Book Creator, Kindle Kids Book Creator, Kindle Comic Book Creator and, more recently, Kindle Create. All these apps produce Fixed Format ebooks and not all of them are in mobi format. It's also well known that Fixed Layout ebooks produced from these apps will not work on KF7 or ereaders with small screens -- ie mobile phones. These Fixed Format ebooks will only work on KF8. So what you are inferring by saying that Kindle will not allow ebooks for sale unless they are formatted in both KF7 & KF8 is simply not true.
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No, William,
it is you who are wrong. Those apps produce fixed-layout and other formats that simply don't function *at all* on KF7 devices, and (pay attention)
can't be bought and read thereupon. That's
completely and
totally different than blithely ignoring a huge percentage of the Kindle KF7 reading market.
There's a
huge difference between "only"
works and is ONLY buyable on KF8, versus only
looks decent on KF8, while looking like sh*t on KF7.
I see this, especially here on MR, over and over--because it's SO MUCH EASIER to
just make KF8, that's what people do,
as if the millions of KF7's were never sold, never used. You can blow it off talking about "Indie authors/publishers versus professionals," but in that line,
you are basically relegating the work of those indies to the crap heap of amateurism.
Moreover,
considering that you hold yourself out as a professional programmer and an EXPERT, you have an obligation to try to firstly, be right and correct in what you say, and to make sure that
you are not misleading those people on the various forums who will do what YOU tell them to do.
Not to mention hawking your plugin, or whatever it is you are writing. If you're writing something that will be used by people to make MOBI files, I devoutly hope that you're not ignoring KF7.
Not everyone is willing to let KF7 readers fall by the wayside.
Moreover and lastly--go right ahead and ignore KF7 readers. When you or a client get a KQN (Kindle Quality Notice) because a book produces poorly on a K2 or other KF7 device--especially if, god forfend, it has images that are containing charts, tables, figures, etc.--and that publisher gets
that nasty little bright yellow notification on their selling page for that book, warning
away the buying public, talking about formatting errors--maybe then you'll finally get a wake-up call about it, instead of glossing over that you are completely wrong about whether or not KF7 ignored CSS, by asserting that you "just don't care about it." Our resident curmudgeon,
Wolfie, is right--Amazon
will NOT allow the sale of regular, reflowable eBooks that are CRAPPY on KF7. Your comparison of KFX-fixed-layout in this circumstance is Apples and Oranges and utterly and completely irrelevant.
Oh, and you know what? Go right ahead and keep on using ems for images. I'll wait for the inevitable.
For
anyone else contemplating the use of ems, for images, for MOBI OR KF8: just trust me.
Don't do it. But, hey, William--you just keep right on trucking, there, since
you're SO SURE that you always,
always know more than I do.
Hitch