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Originally Posted by Katsunami
I still don't agree. The "rough edges" in EPUB are not rough because of the technology, they are rough because of sloppy work. There's no reason for a book to not have a cover, to have mistakes in the TOC, to have a bad layout.
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I'm not arguing the technology isn't there, I'm saying the economics aren't there to compel using the technology. Smoothing the rough edges is a task given to junior programmers. Senior programmers are assigned to engineering the enhancements-and guess who gets laid off first? Junior programmers. I'm not sure how to alter the economics as I don't think paying extra for decent typesetting is an option. If you could automate the typesetting conversion from print format to ebook that might do it but it doesn't sound like that technology is available yet.