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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
.... The output from InDesign is a PDF file. The printer feeds the PDF file to an imagesetter that creates the plates from which books are printed.
InDesign can also create ePub files, but currently does so poorly.
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If set up correctly, InDesign should be able to create perfectly fine EPUB files in the vast, vast majority of cases, and the rest will probably take an extra day or two of work.
I personally would be happy happy with PDFs (which can be reflowable as well), if there were larger screen ereaders available, but that's another topic.
I am not sure why you are so defensive of publishers.... Ebooks are relatively easy to produce, if you already have the InDesign files.
And they should be cheaper than their paper counterparts, for the obvious reasons.
There is no need to try to make the process sound more complicated than it really is, to justify the higher profits publishers want to extract from the new technology.