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Originally Posted by Aleron Ives
My question was how you can tell if the author uploaded an EPUB file directly vs using the meat grinder. It seems like if EPUB is the only format, then the book must have been uploaded in that format, as the meat grinder multi-format conversion only happens when you upload a Word document.
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If it has every format then Word has been used.
But the author can still separately upload mobi and/or epub.
Also the author/publisher (there are multi-author publishers) chooses which formats to support and could select mobi and epub only, or just epub, even if uploading an MS Word format file, on the basis that PDFs are terrible on small screens and txt is so 1970s, abysmal. Nowadays people are going to either want epub or Kindle format. Also ALL Smashwords downloads are DRM free and Send To Kindle won't take mobi/azw3 etc, but will take epub. So a DRM free epub suits everyone. People can even make their own text, RTF, Word, PDF, LRF, PDB whatever for free from an epub on Mac, Windows or Linux.
So you can't tell if epub only means Word was not used. Even if Word format was used (PDF & Text files etc), the epub could still be a separate upload and same one used for Google and Amazon.
So you can't know how the epub was made, unless you download the sample, if there is one (recommended).