Seems like this falls into the same category as people using Keynote or PowerPoint to lay out pages. Crazy, but it happens a lot.

Yeah, it’s always going to be better to convert an INDD file to EPUB — or even an Word doc! — than PDF.

I’ve published a couple of books through Amazon, and they do make it very easy. If you want a print book in the US, you’ll need to buy a ISBN number (from myidentifiers.com). Kindle books don’t need them.

Are you looking to do a print book or a Kindle ebook?

You can find a ton of information here: https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/

It might be easier to apply No Break to the whole thing, and then use a GREP Style to apply a character style that turns OFF no break for the space-bullet-space.

To do that, make a character style that has the No Break checkbox blank. If there’s a checkmark in it, it means “on”; if there’s a dash in it, it means “leave it alone.” But if the checkbox is blank, it means “turn it off.”

The grep style could be ~8 (that means space followed by a bullet followed by a space)

The alternating colors is trickier. Hm…

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thanks!

Well, adding or removing layers in the program can cause issues. I wonder if it has to do with something like what Sandee described in the section “The Riddle of the Bounding Box” here:
https://creativepro.com/changing-illustrator-layers.php