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Originally Posted by A Lurker
But you're saying the announcement really meant Amazon will accept epubs and then convert them?
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Yep! ... sometimes. It's really picky and a lot of epubs will just silently fail conversion or end up weirdly mangled.
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Originally Posted by Quoth
One thing I've never understood is why I can't use email or the Send to Kindle app to send awz3 files. Despite being the preferred format of Kindles, those are always bounced back with a warning they are not accepted and I must use mobi, epub, etc. Also, it's not listed by Amazon as an acceptable format: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custo...4490_626412530 |
Yeah. I'd guess it's backwards-compatibility: wanting MOBI to always work. So this might be improving soon.
What is acceptable is 'dual MOBI', which is MOBI and AZW3 together in a single wrapper: Amazon picks them apart and sends the right version to the Kindle.
(It's still not clear to me what happens to sending periodicals by email once Amazon finally kicks in the no-more-MOBI rules, given that periodicals are necessarily MOBI. Does that just stop working? Thanks, Amazon.)