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lindsayw · 10-19-2011, 07:42 PM

I don't think that Amazon will EVER let the Kindle become an ePub-handling device. And they won't stop making all their eBooks available only in their own propietary format, either. So, for authors, the trick is learning how to best replace the 'Typesetter' skills of olden days with knowledge of xhtml and css, so that the middle line may be walked, allowing presentation in either MOBI or ePub to be acceptable to the end user. Sure, that means that in one format or the other (usually MOBI), some compromises have to be accepted, but reasonable and pleasing text formatting is possible with current technology. They will look a bit different in different different formats, just like they will look a bit different on different devices, or with different user-choices like font-size.

10-19-2011, 07:42 PM	#24
lindsayw Author from pBook days Posts: 49 Karma: 10782 Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Australia Device: Kindle-3-Keyboard; 8" Android Tablet	I don't think that Amazon will EVER let the Kindle become an ePub-handling device. And they won't stop making all their eBooks available only in their own propietary format, either. So, for authors, the trick is learning how to best replace the 'Typesetter' skills of olden days with knowledge of xhtml and css, so that the middle line may be walked, allowing presentation in either MOBI or ePub to be acceptable to the end user. Sure, that means that in one format or the other (usually MOBI), some compromises have to be accepted, but reasonable and pleasing text formatting is possible with current technology. They will look a bit different in different different formats, just like they will look a bit different on different devices, or with different user-choices like font-size.