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Originally Posted by STEM
A little difficulty for me is 'chicken and egg': do I wait for folk to ask for material in e-book format, or do I do it first . . . . mebbe they don't want it . . .
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Put a note on your front page and ask.
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Most of my material is KISS (keep it simple, stupid), it is only recently that I have even divided books into chapters!=
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Works well enough on line, where you can expect the browser to remember where you were. Doesn't work locally, where you might want to jump to a specific section, and a ToC is invaluable.
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>e(book) is a container
Yes, and for most files it should be easy to script - then there are the exceptions, and checking them all . . . .
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If what you have is all valid XHTML, I see few exceptions.
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A pity that e-book on demand, like pdf on demand from a site is not really helpful.
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It would rather miss the point of what you want to do.
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Off-topic: Emacs - great prog.!
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Well, great design philosophy. There are lots of things that call themselves emacs. See
http://texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?EmacsFamily for a probably incomplete list.
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I was spoiled in my early days of making this material available on CDs, by finding a search program called ISYS (only under Win). Its building, indexing, search and display, stats, search-term highlighting, jump to, notes with refs . . . it was so easy and effective that I did not need to do anything sophisticated. Alas it became too successful and thereby expensive, so I have to put up with Google. But they kindly allow its non-commercial use on my site for which I am very thankful.
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I'm aware of ISYS. If you have the need, and the $ to fund it, it's very much worth the while.
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Millions of hits every month means that I am doing something right. 
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So it would seem.
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Dennis