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Originally Posted by Quoth
Dual mobi is only for Smashwords or your own use.
The mobi format has been depreciated for UPLOADS years ago. The epub2 is recommended.
This has only ONE effect on Amazon customers. Newer Kindles may get more advanced formatting than possible from mobi uploads to KDP. Older Kindles will still get mobi/KF7 downloads.
AFAIK Amazon doesn't deliver dual mobi to customers.
What Doitsu says.
So this is hardly news. Amazon no longer accepts an upload format that no-one should be using and they recommended alternatives years ago.
Oodles of free and paid tools convert wordprocessor content to epub2.
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Mmmmm...I wouldn't say that. We're still giving dual-mobi hand-coded MOBI files to our customers. I don't want "one file to rule them all" for the simple reason that this means no media queries for the (various) Kindle formats--KF7, KF8, etc. And when you're doing more-complex books, with images, text boxes, blabbety-blab, you bloody well need them.
YES, we can do that with an ePUB specifically made for KDP, but then if you're in the biz, where customers routinely upload the wrong files (despite detailed, pictorial, step-by-step, click-by-click Guides and handouts that you send to them!), sending a single client two ePUBs and hoping that they'll upload the right one is nerve-wracking. And if anybody here says, "but, but, HITCH, put "Amazon" or "KDP" in the file name," run for your life.
Yeah, 'cuz that ALWAYS works. (not).
Hitch