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Originally Posted by Hitch
Only a fool would engage in a money bet right now, taking the side that Amazon's going to nuke MOBI format. I don't see that happening in the next...hell, 3 years minimum and maybe 5. If ever.
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It would be hilarious for them to block mobi, while still accepting Word files.
And they will never block Word files, in their quest to make self publishing easy for the masses. The absolute garbage produced by self published authors using Word is fine with them.
When I started making ebooks, I saw that Kindle was the dominant format, so I never looked at ePub. Learned to make html (from a text editor) + opf + ncx (using Excel) and compile using kindlegen, then Preview (since I didn't have an actual Kindle then).
After a couple of years I finally worked out that going via ePub and using Sigil was so much easier.
I've been converting to joint format mobi before submitting to Amazon. But now I might just give them the ePub -- though some books I work on are ePub3. Are they OK? I notice that when I generate an AZW from those that the NAV file will be visible; if I hide it in the ePub I will get an error in the resulting mobi.
Also, if submitting an ePub, will Amazon use the embedded cover image, or the one you submit separately?
The cover image I submit is from the print edition, which may be 6x9". I usually rejig the ebook cover to 600x810 to exactly fill the PW screen. So I would rather have that used for the Kindle than a letterboxed image.