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Originally Posted by Hitch
With all due respect...we don't have a "worldwide standard" in ePUBs. I wish we did; I was just lamenting this lack the other day on another thread. ePUBs that are gorgeous on ADE don't work properly on iPad; ePUBs with the xpgt don't work thither; dropcaps that work in ADE don't work on Nook; dropcaps that are stunning in Nook for PC are horrific and displaced on the NookColor. The steps you have to take to ensure that Nook doesn't automatically hyphenate headers wherever it runs out of room (we don't need no stinkin' syllables!) bastardizes any shot you have of using a BFL-smallcaps combo for any type of heading. iBooks ignores WHATEVER CSS Apple chooses--and if you don't like it, tough. Sony's readers don't recognize justification, for about 80% of them, so if you have a client that wants a fully-justified book, you have to make an LRF for them.
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With all due respect.. I didn't say we have a worldwide standard in epub. and I'm not asking for uniform formatting in epubs. I get that you're frustrated that different readers display things differently or don't give us enough customization, etc. There is the problem that Nook uses a different DRM system as well. But when it comes down to it, I was clearly complaining about the fact that I can't buy an Amazon book and load it onto my Sony Reader. Of course as pointed out before this is true of epub on Kindle as well, but for the most part the major ebook sellers other than Amazon appear to me to have adopted epub. This means that the holdout is Amazon, not epub-using companies. If Amazon went with epub, then we would have at least, a fairly world-wide standard format.