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Originally Posted by DreamWriter
I feel the same way. I have quite a few .mobi books from Smashwords, and I find the quality too variable. Many of them are okay, but others have botched formatting, missing covers, wacky metadata, etc. That's why I was hoping to upload ePub to the stores directly rather than going through Smashwords. But, except for Barnes & Noble (and Amazon  ), the major e-book stores don't make it easy for authors! |
I prefer DRM free. But if it's ePub and it's not from Apple, I can strip the DRM.
I've had some eBooks from Smashwords where things were not all that neat. I like putting in my own embedded font if one is not already embedded. I like not having margins on my reader. It's not as easy as it should be to edit ePub from Smashwords as the code is a mess.
I've had an ePub from Smashwords come out with every line underlined. I've had an ePub come out with different fonts as Word sometimes puts in font family codes where they don't belong. Yes, if you follow the style guide, you get some generic eBook. But sometimes it's nice to get something that's not generic and has decent code under the hood.