In my more cynical moments, I think the owner of Smashwords is getting kickbacks from Microsoft to require their format for ebooks, instead of genuinely open formats like epub or even html. But Brad is quite right: OO can do a fairly good doc, and that will work. Though reminding Smashwords that doc isn't a file interchange format, and people aren't always as eager as they are to support poor, starving little Microsoft, isn't a bad thing either.
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