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Bedtime reading right now is the Smashwords paid version of a book by an author I've known personally for more than ten years and know to be highly pro both in his writing and tech abilities. Yet this SW ePub version a mess in its layout.
My own indie house had over eighty titles running with Smashwords. We stopped uploading new releases some time ago, have now withdrawn all titles from SW and spent a lot of time and money on legal fees to register our company additionally in the USA so that we could upload our own careful title-be-title, fully re-proofed formats to the major new ebook stores.
We do not trust auto-conversion; meatgrinder or otherwise (if there is an otherwise). The results we've been seeing on 'fully approved and premium category' uploads over the past year have been far from satisfactory. Sometimes downright embarrassing.
Cheers. Neil
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