diff --git a/fanficdownloader/mobi.py b/fanficdownloader/mobi.py
index 4facb556..cd9502e0 100644
--- a/fanficdownloader/mobi.py
+++ b/fanficdownloader/mobi.py
@@ -47,8 +47,11 @@ class _SubEntry:
     return self.html.RenameAnchors(self._name + '_')
 
 class Converter:
-  def __init__(self, refresh_url=''):
+  def __init__(self, refresh_url='', title='Unknown', author='Unknown', publisher='Unknown'):
     self._header = Header()
+    self._header.SetTitle(title)
+    self._header.SetAuthor(author)
+    self._header.SetPublisher(publisher)
     self._refresh_url = refresh_url
 
   def ConvertString(self, s):
@@ -114,9 +117,9 @@ class Converter:
     html = HtmlProcessor(html_data)
     data = html.CleanHtml()
     records = []
-    title = html.title
-    if title:
-      self._header.SetTitle(title)
+#    title = html.title
+#    if title:
+#      self._header.SetTitle(title)
     record_id = 1
     for start_pos in range(0, len(data), Record.MAX_SIZE):
       end = min(len(data), start_pos + Record.MAX_SIZE)
@@ -190,16 +193,16 @@ class Header:
     self._first_image_index = 0
 
   def SetAuthor(self, author):
-    self._author = author
+    self._author = author.encode('ascii','ignore')
 
   def SetTitle(self, title):
     # TODO(chatham): Reevaluate whether this needs to be ASCII.
     # maybe just do sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8')? Problems
     # appending self._title with other things.
-    self._title = title.encode('ascii')
+    self._title = title.encode('ascii','ignore')
 
   def SetPublisher(self, publisher):
-    self._publisher = publisher
+    self._publisher = publisher.encode('ascii','ignore')
 
   def AddRecord(self, data, record_id):
     self.max_record_size = max(Record.MAX_SIZE, len(data))
@@ -341,4 +344,4 @@ class Header:
 if __name__ == '__main__':
   import sys
   m = Converter()
-  m.ConvertFiles(sys.argv[1:], '/tmp/test.mobi')
\ No newline at end of file
+  m.ConvertFiles(sys.argv[1:], '/tmp/test.mobi')
diff --git a/fanficdownloader/output.py b/fanficdownloader/output.py
index de002216..63c1168c 100644
--- a/fanficdownloader/output.py
+++ b/fanficdownloader/output.py
@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ class MobiWriter(FanficWriter):
 		self.name = makeAcceptableFilename(adapter.getOutputName())
 		self.fileName = self.basePath + '/' + self.name + self.getFormatExt()
 		self.authorName = removeEntities(adapter.getAuthorName())
+		self.publisher = adapter.getPublisher()
 		self.adapter = adapter
 		self.mobi = mobi
 		self.inmemory = inmemory
@@ -136,7 +137,7 @@ class MobiWriter(FanficWriter):
 #		f.write(result)
 #		f.close()
 
-		c = mobi.Converter()
+		c = mobi.Converter(title=self.storyTitle, author=self.authorName, publisher=self.publisher)
 		mobidata = c.ConvertString(result)
 
 		self.output.write(mobidata)