No Emoji's in Kindle Create!

I used Amazon's application Kindle Create to make the electronic version of my book They're Watching You. The tool is very easy to use and compared to creating the printed version, creating the electronic edition was simple. It was almost as simple as copying and pasting the text, and adding the index.

I did, however, encounter one major problem. In a couple of chapters, there were a few emojis in the text. As I was working through the text, I was pleased to see that the app had an emoji's menu, and I carefully added the emoji's into the right places in the text.

Things were looking great! But after I exported the book, and went to upload it, the upload wouldn't work (and Amazon gave a very unhelpful error message why it wouldn't accept the file!)

After Googling and finding nothing about why an upload might not work, I tried deleting the front matter and the index, and it still didn't work. I tried deleting some other stuff, and still had no joy. And then I had a thought, and I removed the chapters with the emojis to see if that would work, and lo and behold, it uploaded.
So I went back and took out just the emoji's, and it worked!

It turns out that while the emoji's menu is enabled in the Mac app, they aren't supported in Kindle books. Which makes you wonder why they left the menu enabled, and why it adds emoji's into the text!

If you are having trouble uploading your Kindle book, watch out for that!

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