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Originally Posted by Hitch
Anyone who has gotten far enough in their education/curiosity to even know an ePUB exists can find innumerable resources for making them, ranging from Calibre to Jutoh to Sigil to Scrivener to making them by hand.
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When I first dipped a toe into the epub world (from necessity - a publisher collegue had a substantial catalogue to convert and wanted to retain SOME of the resulting income :-) I wasted a lot of time investigating "automagic" conversion methods, obsessing on producing a fascimile of the printed original, and generally not catching on to the concept of "pouring text into a container" as opposed to "laying out a page". My research indicated that auto-conversion was the way to go. The simple truth emerged later - and after we'd published some pretty bad eBooks. (Incidentally, they still sold, just as well as the much tidier ones we're making now. They provide a niche market with the information it needs - content is all!)