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Addendum re Project Gutenberg texts: the oldest ebooks are full of errors. Once Distributed Proofreaders started contributing most of the books, quality went up. DP then changed the workflow to add more proofing and formatting rounds, and quality went up again. The latest DP books are as good as, or better than, recent commercial ebooks.
PG *still* requires DP to submit files as text files as well as HTML files. The text files are outdated and completely useless, lacking support for italic, bold, small caps, etc., but I gather that Manybooks still creates its ebook versions from the text files, which leads to preventable errors.
I do not have the energy for this at the moment, but I hope to convince DP to move to producing epubs, which can then be converted to Kindle formats (mobi, azw) with Calibre.
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