Even though you recommend ‘ePub3’ (my version only lists ‘ePub’), KDP accepts PDF or DOCX. Do you recommend one over the other so that the text color and hyperlinks stay intact?
This is my first attempt at using Scrivener, as well as KDP…
Thanks for your advice!
https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G200634390
I have read somewhere that they no longer “convert” from the .mobi format.
But yet, it seems that they still do.
That format is available in the compiler. But I don’t know what it’s worth.
From my experience, converting from an epub is no problem.
The only issue is that they handle the cover page as a separate file.
So unless you don’t mind your book having the same cover twice (one as the cover, one as a useless page), you have to recompile a version that is without a cover, just for KDP. (I haven’t seen any other distributor that does it as they do.)
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Most ereaders don’t support color.
Some I think do, but that is fairly recent.
This said, if your links don’t (already) look as links in PDF or DOCX (?), that is a whole different issue.
You likely have your compile format remove their decoration.
And perhaps the compiler (see the cog for options) also removes the links’ functionality.
As for normal body text color, removing it is also one of the compiler’s options.
That’d be where it then happens.
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Yeah, it’s the reader. The font/color and hyperlinks work on the PDF;
only the internal Scrivener links don’t work.
Just to verify, you definitely have Convert document links to HTML links enabled, in the General Options tab on the right side of the compile overview screen? It’ll be under the gear tab.
As for colour, with Kindle Previewer make sure you are previewing one of the mobile devices rather than eInk. It will simulate eInk by converting all colours to grey, since that is all they can do.