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Originally Posted by Notjohn
Since I am a strong believer in making books available not only through Amazon but also through Kobo, Apple, Barnes & Noble, and lesser booksellers, I build my book as an epub using the free and excellent Sigil software. It converts wonderfully well on the KDP platform and also, of course, at Amazon's rivals, all of whom use the universal epub format.
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Smashwords distribute to Apple, Kobo, Barnes& Noble and others. I've sold to those three and some other outfit via Smashwords as well as their direct sales.
I've tried Sigil. Too fiddly. Really using LibreOffice writer native odt for edit, "save as" MS Word docx and import to Calibre works perfectly. I proof on a Kobo and copy back annotations into a text file (used to use Notepad++, now use KATE). The same Calibre ePub works to upload to Amazon and gives a kindle output looking like my ePub on Kobo/Sony/Nook, or AZW from Calibre to my PW3.
I also use Write's Regex search (7 expressions) to do a final scan before making the docx for Calibre.