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Originally Posted by madeirabhoy
sent a .epub to my own kindle app that id ran Modify epub on, it didnt go through and got email. bearing in mind half a dozen files had gone through fine without problems this way.
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I have posted about this issue before:
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Originally Posted by jhowell
Amazon converts emailed EPUBs using Kindlegen, the same software that is used to process professionally published books. As a publishing tool, Kindlegen is designed to be intolerant of errors in the source EPUB.
It would be nice if Amazon would provide the actual error log that Kindlegen produces when rejecting a book. However I don't see that happening as it would just be confusing to most customers. If you want to know why a book was rejected you can use Amazon's Kindle Previewer software to find out.
The most common reason I have seen is a bad table of contents. Amazon's publishing guidelines require the TOC to have working links that point to non-hidden content and entries that follow the same sequence as the book's content.
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Here is Kovid Goyal's take on the subjectL
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
amazon's email intake is horrible. I have seen reports of them rejecting all sorts of epubs that display fine elsewhere. They are going to inconvenience a lot of people with this change.
Personally I suggest you stop relying on the email delivery service. It's too unreliable, for instance, the other day I had a report of it rejecting an epub simply because it had undecodable fonts in it. Fonts are entirely optional, they can be ignored if needed.
A publishing manuscript intake tool is not appropriate for processing general consumer epubs. Par for the course for amazon, though.
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