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Quoth · 09-23-2021, 08:01 AM

You can send Smashwords a dual mobi for kindle and epub for epub. Their conversion of doc is poor and strange they don't take docx.

Almost all ereading is on epub ereaders, epub apps or kindle or kindle apps. Anyone still having to use pdb or lrf can use a converter from epub.

People preferring PDF, text or HTML to Kindle/epub is rare.

So we are going to stop uploading "doc" and only have kindle and epub as formats. Unfortunately they don't accept sample uploads (you could create a free sample title?) or create them from other than "doc" uploads. So we are adding better quality samples to our own site where the entire NCX/TOC works. We chop out most of the contents of chapters after 20% to 30% is reached. We can choose a better break point to end the full text chapters and leave only the title on chapters with a big spoiler in first sentence or paragraph.

Slightly more than 1/2 our sales are via Smashwords inc partners (Kobo, Apple, Tolino, Barnes & Noble, Scribd). The rest are on Amazon. Amazon has 90% of English book sales because of people either using KDP Select (exclusive by contract) or not uploading elsewhere.

We also upload to Google but have never sold a single book via the Playstore Google Playbooks. That seems to be the case for most publishers. Odd.

Just upload an epub and a dual mobi (Calibre KF7 + KF8) to Smashwords. It's the absolutely only use I see for the dual mobi.

Don't use KDP Select, that turns Amazon into an exclusive publisher and retailer.

We also put a QR code near the start linked to our site for samples. I've verified it works pointing a camera at paper, eink 167 dpi KK3, DXG or 300 dpi PW3, LCD screen (app on tablet and program on PC) and CRT.

Free QR generator on Linux. Save image, resize in The GIMP import to LO Writer and convert docx to epub with Calibre with no Calibre editing.

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Quoth Still reading Posts: 14,509 Karma: 108666825 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper	You can send Smashwords a dual mobi for kindle and epub for epub. Their conversion of doc is poor and strange they don't take docx. Almost all ereading is on epub ereaders, epub apps or kindle or kindle apps. Anyone still having to use pdb or lrf can use a converter from epub. People preferring PDF, text or HTML to Kindle/epub is rare. So we are going to stop uploading "doc" and only have kindle and epub as formats. Unfortunately they don't accept sample uploads (you could create a free sample title?) or create them from other than "doc" uploads. So we are adding better quality samples to our own site where the entire NCX/TOC works. We chop out most of the contents of chapters after 20% to 30% is reached. We can choose a better break point to end the full text chapters and leave only the title on chapters with a big spoiler in first sentence or paragraph. Slightly more than 1/2 our sales are via Smashwords inc partners (Kobo, Apple, Tolino, Barnes & Noble, Scribd). The rest are on Amazon. Amazon has 90% of English book sales because of people either using KDP Select (exclusive by contract) or not uploading elsewhere. We also upload to Google but have never sold a single book via the Playstore Google Playbooks. That seems to be the case for most publishers. Odd. Just upload an epub and a dual mobi (Calibre KF7 + KF8) to Smashwords. It's the absolutely only use I see for the dual mobi. Don't use KDP Select, that turns Amazon into an exclusive publisher and retailer. We also put a QR code near the start linked to our site for samples. I've verified it works pointing a camera at paper, eink 167 dpi KK3, DXG or 300 dpi PW3, LCD screen (app on tablet and program on PC) and CRT. Free QR generator on Linux. Save image, resize in The GIMP import to LO Writer and convert docx to epub with Calibre with no Calibre editing. Last edited by Quoth; 09-23-2021 at 08:06 AM.