Thanks Nate!
If there is anything I (and others) could do to help spearhead this, please do not hesitate to ask...
That's goes for Alexander as well!!!!!
On a related note, I finally got Mobi2IMP to work in linux using wine, so at least that is a starting point. Also, I know Impbuild (part of ebookutils) and my perl scripts (html2imp.pl and opf2imp.pl) work in linux using wine.
I also recently got word2imp.pl to work, so there's a lot of support now for even .doc/.rtf/.txt word documents.
p.s. sorry for hijacking this thread