Thread: Sigil's Future
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Old 07-19-2011, 09:55 AM   #29
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Hmm, suggestions about making a commercial Sigil I dislike. See, the original dev made the program 'big', does anyone realy think its good some commercial institution comes along, grabs all the code and change it, making it closed source and sell it? Besides GPL kinda makes that hard, I think it's a bit unfair.

I specially looked for an Open Source ePUB editor. Big publishers often have their inDesign workflow and don't give much about how the internals look of those converted epubs. Most then apply DRM to lock the ePUB.

And don't forget Sigil is mentioned in some (e)books about ebook publishing, some go as far as making a complete tutorial section.

Oh well, maybe some will just ignore ePUB v3, others will switch to indesign or whatever to do support ePUB v3. Others will just stick with the last stable Sigil. Others will go the unzip and some code editor route to make their ePUBs. And maybe a new project comes along starting all over again...
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