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Originally Posted by jhowell
it would make much more sense to be able to put a book through the whole conversion process and then push it to your Amazon account as a private book
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Which Smashwords does. You can actually download ANY version/revision.
Exactly what I said earlier.
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Originally Posted by jhowell
that you could download and view on your own Kindle apps and devices just as if you had purchased a finished and published book. That would allow the book to be seen in all of the various formats and flavors before releasing it. The downside would be the need for the publisher to have various Kindle apps and devices to test with.
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Anyone seriously producing ebooks does test anything using new formatting on the KF7, KF8 Amazon default and KF8 Publisher option, some apps and some epub eink ereaders before they upload to KDP anyway!
If it's just using tried and tested styles, HTML, and Images then just Book Check, Epub Check, Check all TOC entries on a viewer and all links/footnotes etc on a viewer and quick check on one eink is enough.
Images of new sizes might need more testing.
The only point at all for a publisher using epub2 upload to KDP is to see Amazon's conversion. Which is why even when there was a more real preview file that could load on a real kindle we did test purchases of KF7 (mobi) and KF8 (azw3) for two different Kindles. Seems that is now more important if we change any recipe anywhere.
Wonder what @Hitch thinks?