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Originally Posted by Jellby
PS. But I don't think Amazon will use ePub, they'll probably use some concoction like AZW3...
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The issue is that Amazon will no longer be accepting MOBI files from publishers. Only EPUB, KPF, and DOC/DOCX are allowed to be submitted for publishing. See the thread
MOBI support for reflowable files ending... for more information.
Amazon will themselves convert the publisher format into the various Kindle formats needed for Kindle apps and devices.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
You are best to convert your HTML to ePub and then use that as the source for sending to Amazon. Going HTML > Mobi > ePub is the long way round for a shortcut.
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I agree with the others that converting (really packaging) HTML to EPUB is the way to go.
If you start from MOBI you may be missing some of the formatting that was present in your original HTML files since MOBI only supports a subset of HTML 3 and any MOBI converter would have had to take that into account, unless your files were already HTML 3.
Packaging HTML into an EPUB is fairly easy, but keep in mind is that EPUB does not support everything that can be done in HTML and that Amazon's support for EPUB is not 100% complete. You should check Amazon's
Kindle Publishing Guidelines to see which HTML features are supported and update your HTML files accordingly.