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Originally Posted by Quoth
Of course, but maybe the uploaded epub will be fine if a local epub to azw3 conversion is fine. That's my experience. More reliable to test on a variety of eink kindles than the Previewer, which I can no longer run.
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Well, I've had decent success (of late, since the larger shift toward ePUB) simply sending the file (the ePUB) to the dedicated (device) address these days. Now, I wouldn't do that to preview on an iOS device, of course, but they seem to work fine on eInks, if that helps. It's come a long way, compared to what it used to be.
And of course, the ePUB or MOBI sideloaded will not show ET.
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Why on earth does Amazon not provide download after upload to KDP of each of their formats before you publish? They seem inept. Also they have "broken" the "Look Inside" preview in terms of formatting, it seems to be just an HTML eternal scroll.
Smashwords allows the publisher/author to download all format conversions of all versions.
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Well, not sure why this is such a biggie. After all, this whole "convert into 20 formats thing" is SW's and the Calibre API's jam,
not Amazon's.
Amazon's position is that publishers should upload their ready-to-go files, or live with the files that they, Amazon, process for them. If they upload a Word file, yes, they can still download a zipped HTML file (and then reverse-convert that to Word). Ditto if they upload an ePUB. If they upload a .kpf, that's from KC (or one of the abandoned programs) and Amazon's view is, it can only be previewed o KP3, anyway, so what's to download?
So...the only real outlier is the dreaded AZK file for iOS and even that is allegedly going the way of the dodo.
[shrug]
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