Thread: Kindle to utilize epub format in late 2022
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Old 08-13-2022, 12:11 PM   #258
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Originally Posted by jhowell View Post
I tested this just now by emailing an EPUB that does not contain a character encoding in its xhtml files. It was accepted by Amazon and it displays on my Kindle with garbled characters as expected. So it not the case that missing character encoding now automatically leads to rejection.
I was playing with emailing an ePub to a Kindle and found that the ePub which lacked the correct minimal directory structure was rejected. The ePub had all it's files in the root of the .zip container including the container.xml which must be located in the META-INF directory. It also had the mimetype file compressed which is, again, contrary to the ePub specification. This resulted from the author uncompressing the original ePub to do some image compression and then using a zip utility to add all the files into a new file.

For what it's worth, epubcheck was extremely unhappy with the ePub as I received it from the author.
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