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Originally Posted by Quoth
Also usually how the ebooks are uploaded. So if DRM free then Amazon only needs to offer the upload.
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That would be great but it seems unlikely to me.
Remember, this is Amazon. They allow books to be upload in a variety of formats, including DOCX. That is likely popular with self-publishers. And they allow editing of the uploaded content within their software before actually publishing it. Those features make it likely that they will just convert from their internal format to EPUB for downloading.
As a test I took a simple EPUB, converted it to Amazon's Kindle Publishing Format (KPF) using the Kindle Previewer and then back to EPUB using Kindle Create. Here are the results.
Original:
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<h1>Chapter 1</h1>
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.</p>
<p>The End</p>
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After conversion:
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<div class="class-0-1" id="aid_2">Chapter 1</div>
<div class="class-0-2" id="id-0-1">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.</div>
<div class="class-0-3" id="id-0-2">The End</div>
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With CSS:
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.class-0-1 {
font-size : 2.0rem ;
font-weight : bold ;
line-height : 1.2em ;
}
.class-0-2 {
font-size : 1.0rem ;
line-height : 1.2em ;
margin-top : 1.3400000399999998em ;
}
.class-0-3 {
font-size : 1.0rem ;
line-height : 1.2em ;
margin-bottom : 0.99999996em ;
margin-top : 0.99999996em ;
}
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Perhaps the downloads they provide will be better than that, but I doubt it.