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Originally Posted by VydorScope
What do you mean? All the epubs I have gotten from Smashwords work fine on my NookColor and Android phones.
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Sometimes I want to change the font or te margins are whatnot and the code under the hood is awful. Word does a really poor job with the styles and Calibre converts them as they are. So we get really bad code. Look at the code in an ePub from Smashwords and you'll see what I mean. And we are getting threads on MR about validation errors with Smashwords. If the author was able to make the ePub ahead of time, then even if Word was used, the author could have the garbage removed so the ePub would look good under the hood and the ePub would display as the author intended. Also, the ePub would display as it was wanted, not just sometimes OK and not this or that is not quite what I wanted. Also, the authors could embed fonts if they wanted or other things you cannot do because of Word > ePub direct.
Also, if Smashwords allowed uploading any other format and any not posted was made from the ePub, we'd have better eBooks overall.