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Originally Posted by jhowell
This is the only point you have made so far in this argument that I am in agreement with to some degree. Currently the burden falls on the publisher to produce books that render well (or at least readably) in the various Kindle delivery formats that Amazon produces from the publisher's source file. With three major delivery formats currently in use (MOBI7, KF8, and KFX) there is a lot to test.
The tool they provide to help with this, the Kindle Previewer, does only part of the job. It focuses on how the book will render on the newest apps and devices and leaves it up to the publisher to create and sideload MOBI files to check rendering on older devices.
It would be nice if Amazon's software could do a better job of automatically producing a MOBI fallback that renders well from source files that use modern HTML formatting. That would reduce the burden on publishers and provide more consistency in book formatting for uses of older devices.
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There is another option Amazon could have. They could allow the publisher to specify no Mobi for eBooks that just won't work will in Mobi. Most eBooks will be OK in Mobi. But some won't be OK and that's where the problem is.