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Originally Posted by Quoth
Thanks. I was wondering was I doing something stupid, and it DID seem to depend on the image size on the PW3, yet the 167 dpi KK3 in KF8 mode seemed to work like the 300 dpi Libra and the slightly lower resolution Original H2O (227 dpi?). I was a bit baffled.
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NOPE, it's a bloody bug and they've known about it...5-6 years now. Scout's honor. I mean, hell,when was KP2.9xx last released? At least that long.
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We allow maybe 2 or 3 months now between "thinking" an ebook is polished and the actual release date. So it gives time to upload epub2 to KDP and download their mysterious "preview sample". If there is something stunning new in terms of a style we also download to DXG, KK3 and PW3 from UK & USA Amazon on release and double check.
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Well, I have good news and bad news for you, then. You can no longer download the mysterious "preview sample," which is nothing more than MOBI. That may be the good news, OR the bad news.
On the other hand, you can open your ePUB, HTML, whatever, in KP3, and then use file-->Export and get a MOBI for sideloading, as well as an AZK file (for sideloading to iOS devices).
Ta-da! See, I'm a problem-solving wench for you today, Quoth. Again, that may be the good, or bad, news. Not really sure...
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We've never had a problem with epub2 uploads (Apple, B&N, Scribd, Kobo via Smashwords and Google Books), only with KF7 or KF8.
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Ehhh, I've had my moments with B&N. I'll never forget finding out the hard way that if you used a span inside the first paragraph of a chapter head that you were screwed. (For incipits).
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Originally we sent "docx" to Amazon (the same one used by Calibre) and then on their conversion the page breaks vanished one day on a new ebook upload. They couldn't figure it and told us to upload whatever epub2 we send to Smashwords and Google. They didn't list epub as an upload format originally.
The Smashwords "doc" conversion is poor, so we upload epub2 and the Calibre "Dual Mobi" as Smashwords has no idea what Kindle model a customer has.
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Well, a looong time ago and far far away, when the earth was young...and Amazon was betwixt and tween K1 and K2 and were working on the next gen, you could just use docx, because effectively, everything was being converted by MOBIPocket Creator. Hell, I learned originally, pre_K2, on MBPC.
But the moment that they starting moving away from that and wrote their own rendering machine, yes, you had to move up to zipped HTML or ePUB to get reliable, consistent results. I think I switched up to ePUB, full-time, in early 2010.
Hitch