Kindle – Gwen Hernandez

No more MOBIs

Did you get the email from Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) about their accepted file types for ebooks? In case you missed it, or were confused by the changes, here’s what you need to know if you format your ebooks in Scrivener. For “reflowable” ebooks (see explanation below), Amazon no longer accepts MOBI files. They

Scrivener and Amazon play nice

November 20, 2012Gwen HernandezTech Stuff15 Comments

You may have read that Amazon is no longer accepting MOBI files created by third-party software like Calibre. In which case, you might have panicked and wondered if their pronouncement affected Scrivener. I’m happy to report that it does not. Scrivener uses Amazon’s KindleGen software to create MOBI files, which is the same software Amazon