Learning Experience

So much to learn about taking a book directly to e-publication. Still. Yes, we got it done with a fairly high approximation of "done right" this time...

...doesn't mean there isn't more to learn.

Think of it as getting the error-band reduced on a calculation; we've got to within tolerences of +/- 1 or so (abstract value). We can get it down to +/- 0.1 with more work, and more learning.

Kindle Direct Publishing handles the Epub file upload and "rendering" into the final product completely inside a black box, from the point of view of the author. There are very few ways to know how the finished product will look *on all devices that will display it* even with previews, proofing, and generating a test MOBI file.

Artifacts from, oh say, Scrivener files being used to generate the Epub can come back in some MOBI file versions, and not in others. I've been lucky so far, and have great friends helping understand what happens.

But it's been a Learning Experience, and will continue to be.

Any of you with experience with Scrivener -> Epub vs something like Jutoh -> Epub for file preparation, please do comment here.