05-30-2012, 02:51 PM | #1 |
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mobi file not supported at KDP
Last night a client tried to upload to KDP a mobi file that I had produced through Calibre. KDP gave the message 'file not supported'. I reconverted it with HTML and MobiPocket but then had no NCX file. That uploaded fine.
The mobi opened for Previewing beautifully on Kindle Previewer, personal Kindle Fire, personal iPad and Kindle for PC app. Anyone else have this problem? None of my other clients have mentioned a glitch with a Calibre generated mobi so far. |
07-01-2012, 05:29 PM | #2 |
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Do a search on the KDP Forums--this subject came up a little while ago, but I'm not sure where!
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07-02-2012, 06:44 AM | #3 |
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Most people who build e-books for a living regard Calibre as a very useful book-management tool but a rather poor publishing tool.
Much the same is true of Mobipocket Creator. It's obsolescent because it can't create a KF8 file for the Fire, Touch, etc. As for the NCX file, I was amused to notice that the latest Kindle publishing guide--from Amazon!--nowhere mentions it. The NCX is required but not mandatory, evidently. The only thing you lose is the ability to skip from one chapter to the next (or previous), or such is the case on my K3. (I wouldn't know how to do it in the Fire.) |
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Otherwise, I agree with you, required=mandatory; not sure how a thing could be one without the other. (And "the rules demand it but the code doesn't" should probably be phrased as "mandatory but not required." Or "mandatory but not enforced.") |
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Amazon, as Kovid will tell you, rejected books throughout 2009 through mid-2011; a woman who wanted to produce a mobi complained on the Calibre forum in 2011; Calibre was tweaked to solve one problem, and they worked for a while, but Amazon has now again taken the position that they will not accept Calibre-generated mobi's. If your client's OTHER books have gotten through, you may have cheated death on those--but I'd highly recommend you find another way to make professional mobis for which you are selling your services as a formatter. By the way: unless you have express written legal consent to upload books for your clients, which authorizes you to bind them, contractually, to Amazon, uploading someone else's books, even a client's, is against Amazon's Terms of Service. Uploading creates a contract by and between the author/publisher and Amazon (like when you click off all those wee boxes). If someone else (like you) does the uploading, the contract is, technically, null and void, because you can't bind another individual to a contract. IF something goes bad down the road, one side or the other could argue that no contract EVER existed between your client and Amazon. One of the other companies on the Professional Converter's List lost their standing over this, FWIW. Will you get caught? Unlikely--but if you do, all the weight of the non-existence of that contract will fall on you--not to mention, you'll have avowed that you had the right to publish that book, and owned all the necessary rights--posing as someone else. Might want to give that some ponderment, while you're contemplating your Calibre issue. Hitch |
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07-06-2012, 07:23 AM | #11 |
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Yes, I read the article... never have Calibre construct a KF8 file, just simple Mobi... and haven't had a file rejected since that one. And I never upload my clients files to any of the venues. That would make me a publisher and would add many levels to my business that I just don't want or need.
Adding an epub into Kindle Previewer just hasn't worked very well for me yet, text is fine but the resultant centered text looses its centering. That seems to be the only issue. I can't find the problem in the HTML though. |
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@AThirstyMind: sorry, misread your first sentence in your first post--thought you were uploading the mobi. Feel free to ignore my discussion on that. I'll leave it, though, for others to read who come along. I do think, though, that K8 formatting or not, it's clear that, at least for this time, Amazon is rejecting Calibre-made mobis, at least sporadically enough for it to be problematic. Can you show us what coding you're using for the centering you cannot get to work? Hitch |
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Mandate: An official order or commission to do something: So if the copper looked me in the eye and told me to stop at the red octagon, I would do it. Requirement: required activity; That's much weaker, seems to me. However that may be, I have yet to build my first NCX file, despite Hitch's good advice. There is so much more I want to do! |
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07-07-2012, 07:11 AM | #15 |
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I'm guessing the "mandatory (but not required/enforced)" NCX (logical ToC) situation represents a bit of a grace period. Given the way the very latest Kindle devices/firmware allow you to directly view and navigate an ebook using an NCX "view" (with collapsible, nested sections and everything), I fully expect the enforcement of the inclusion of a full featured NCX file to happen somewhere down the road. In other words... use the grace period to figure it out if you haven't already done so.
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