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And that is where the trouble began. Accustomed to creating InDesign layouts for which the ultimate destination is either print or PDF, Babbage and his designers (under his direction; the e-buck stops with him) made myriad tiny choices that refined the presentation, but which made EPUB conversion tedious. Choices as simple as the width of a text container for a headline, repeated 28 times throughout the book, once per story, affected the flow of text that InDesign created.
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This seems to be their major problem. They were trying to control every aspect of the presentation and you just can't do that with an epub. One of my favorite things about ereading is that *I* control the look and can set the font, font size, line spacing, paragraph spacing, etc. based on my preferences.
When e-publishing you need to accept that the reader can change these things instead of obsessing over ever detail of how the book will look.