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Originally Posted by starrigger
Last I heard from my own publishers, each retailer does its own conversion, usually from an RTF file, at least if it's straight text like a novel.
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This may have been the case previously, but the formatting in recent Random House and Tor ePub titles seems to bely that; it's simply too close to the print books (and too consistent between stores, comparing my Sony/Borders purchases to the iBooks/B&N samples) to be randomly applied by the retailers...
Self-conversion may be true of non-ePub titles, though they're probably getting OEBPS files (or were, and now just do the conversion from ePub?) and not straight RTF. At least, that's the only explanation I have for how Sony's backlist ePubs, after their conversion last year, have OEBPS "guts" instead of the ePub "guts" I see at B&N!
