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Originally Posted by calvin-c
Few things work that way. At least not in high-tech. Taking the time to finish the rough edges means standing still-and that means you're falling behind.
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Nonsense. It's perfectly possible to create a perfect and good looking book as an EPUB, but it just isn't done right. Having the TOC work correctly and be complete, having nice high-res covers and maps and some good looking chapter headings and section breaks goes a long way to make an e-book a good product.
Paying money for one and then discovering it's no better than crappy pirated and OCR-ed works of 10 years ago is just disappointing. There is no reason for that anymore; not since we have EPUB (and AZW3).
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I'm not sure if typesetting can be automated but I'm sure somebody's trying to do it.
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It can't be really used for EPUB because it's based on fixed-layout print, but typesetting has been automated with TeX/LaTeX
thirty-five years ago. Having typesetting such as LaTeX work for EPUBs is basically impossible, because EPUB is not fixed-layout. "Live typesetting" each time you turn the page would require a huge amount of processing power and speed.