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Originally Posted by vaughnmr
Just out of curiousity, which of the "standard" epubs versions would be best used for conversion to mobi for my Kindle? From what I'm hearing, each vendor makes a different "standard" epub ebook, and evidently Apple strays from the "standard" more than others.
Assuming, of course, that there is no drm involved...
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There is the ePub standard, and then there is the DRM put on top of it. From my understanding of things, many of the books in the iBookstore don't adhere very closely to the ePub standard (uncracked DRM aside, speaking strictly about what people have done to get their books looking nice on iBooks). The books I've got have mostly been DRM free from Smashwords and the like, or with Adobe ADEPT DRM, and when stripping things back to look at the code, both have varied wildly in regards to the ePub spec. The DRM makes no different. It all boils down to how much attention people pay to the specification of the ePub Standard when making their ebooks. Most people have a "ehh, its good enough" philosphy, that just because there aren't apparent issues, they don't work harder to get it fully in compliance with the spec. The problem with this is, sometimes it causes issues between readers, if they use different rendering engines.