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LGN · 07-15-2011, 12:16 AM

I hope that even a (big?) commercial ebook producer(s) would take over, they would keep it open source so that the potentially coders community would have a chance to grow.

Sigil has a specific target audience and might be unknown to the masses. While the people having ereaders and other devices will continue to grow, as well as the number of publications available I think Sigil already earned its place.

I know many publishers will export an ePub from say their commercial pipeline like indesign, the resulting ePubs aren't perfect. Also the ability for people to export to epub from, say Open Office / Libre Office is possible, or even a plain Calibre conversion, but in many cases it's desirable to improve the results to ensure you have the best ePUB an ePUB can be.

I certainly hope Sigil will be with us for a long time. There is a need for this kind of tool.

07-15-2011, 12:16 AM	#8
LGN Connoisseur Posts: 88 Karma: 60 Join Date: Oct 2010 Device: ProMedia eReader, Sony PRS-600	I hope that even a (big?) commercial ebook producer(s) would take over, they would keep it open source so that the potentially coders community would have a chance to grow. Sigil has a specific target audience and might be unknown to the masses. While the people having ereaders and other devices will continue to grow, as well as the number of publications available I think Sigil already earned its place. I know many publishers will export an ePub from say their commercial pipeline like indesign, the resulting ePubs aren't perfect. Also the ability for people to export to epub from, say Open Office / Libre Office is possible, or even a plain Calibre conversion, but in many cases it's desirable to improve the results to ensure you have the best ePUB an ePUB can be. I certainly hope Sigil will be with us for a long time. There is a need for this kind of tool.