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Originally Posted by Hitch
Uhhhh. Crapdoodle. Okay, I can't really talk about this, but I can absolutely, positively say that there's no "special treatment" in terms of books being formatted to some "higher standard." That is absopositively not correct.
There aren't any magic tools or magic coders. Topaz is a thing of a bygone era. Now, you get EXACTLY the same books that everybody else does, if you happen to send your book to the larger formatters, world-wide. Amazon does have an approved list of companies that they use for book formatting--that's also public knowledge. But ALL of those companies are available for hire by John Doe.
The big difference is the coding that can fly by when you're FTPing files, rather than uploading them through the KDP interface. You can have embedded video, audio, that sort of thing.
But if you have your basic non-fiction 'How to" book of some ilk, it's not going to be any differently coded, or have different features, than any other eBook coming out of that same...area of formatters.
That's really all I can say and that's mostly public knowledge, if you've spent any time discussing stuff with Amazon (both Seattle and India).
Hitch
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And for eBooks that are nothing special in terms of formatting, it's very easy to make well formatted (under the hood and what the user sees) eBooks. I can take your average novel put out by one of the big 5 and reformat it so it is even better formatted and the code is better under the hood.
I don't need special treatment to upload a well formatted eBook to Amazon or Kobo or Smashwords. I just ave to make the eBook properly and there is no way I would put out an eBook that wasn't well formatted with good clean code.