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Generic EPUB: Could not validate EPUB for Send to Kindle

If you upload your EPUB and see this message, you might need to provide a new EPUB:

BookFunnel was not able to validate your EPUB for Send to Kindle

BookFunnel checks EPUBs for compatibility with Send to Kindle. Readers can’t read your book on Kindle if Send to Kindle can’t process it.

This error means that BookFunnel scanned your EPUB and found issues that will likely cause the file to be rejected when sent to Kindle.

How to Address Issues

  1. If you think our precheck might be wrong, test your EPUB!

    Email it to your @kindle.com email address to see if Kindle can convert it. If your EPUB is delivered successfully to your Kindle library, please let us know so that we can improve our Kindle validator.
  2. If you test your EPUB and Amazon rejects it, you’ll need to provide a new EPUB.

How to Generate A New EPUB (free)

If you wrote your book in Microsoft Word, Apple Pages, or Google Docs, you can convert your book to a beautiful EPUB using Draft2Digital. You can use D2D’s excellent (and FREE!) Word Docx–>EPUB converter, even if you don’t distribute your books through their service.

Just export your manuscript as a .docx file (both Google Docs and Pages support Docx) and upload it to Draft2Digital. Learn more about Draft2Digital.

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