Thread: cross-referencing in an EPUB?
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Old 07-07-2022, 09:11 AM   #11
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Originally Posted by Pierre Lawrence View Post
Don't you still need mobi for legacy reasons, i.e., for readers having early versions of the Kindle? Does amazon still offer that format for these readers?
You can upload a mobi ONLY for fixed-layout.

Amazon produces an AZW for legacy readers--the point is, you can no longer upload one for regular, reflowable eBooks. Amazon takes the ePUB that you upload (or the Word file, zipped HTML, etc.) and builds the required file.

That's why, at my shop, even though we have stopped building mobi files (except for those customers that wish to preview on their own Kindle devices), we still build optimized ePUBs (ePUBs with Amazon-specific fallbacks and media queries, as if they are MOBI files). That way, Amazon can build the 3 formats or really, 4, that it requires to service all the registered devices--old MOBI, KF8, KFX and the AZK equivalent (for iOS).

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