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Originally Posted by davidhburton
I like Smashwords for the ability to get books into places I couldn't otherwise, but I wish they would allow us to upload our own mobi/epub files rather than use the meatgrinder. That said, the final product isn't horrendous, it's just not the way I would really like it.
The big thing I really like is the lack of DRM. Makes porting my books around a lot easier since I have an ipad (with different ereaders on it) and a Kobo Touch.
LJ, thanks for the rec on INgrooves...will check that out.
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I prefer to have no margins. So I edit the ePub to fix that. When I look at the code in a Smashwords ePub, it is truly nasty. So even if it might look good enough, it's really not.
There is a very simple way to solve Smashwords problems. Allow every format to be uploaded and make ePub mandatory. Then any format not uploaded, use the ePub to covert to. That would make things a lot nicer and eliminate most issues. I would hope authors would not still do Word to ePub unless they bother to clean it up.