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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
yes, very true. but the epub viewers will evolve, hopefully rapidly. i consider a true standard format important enough to support it even before it's perfect (as a webdesigner, i have a strong bias in favor of standard formats...). and the current implementation should allow as attractive a presentation as most other formats (pdf being a bit of an exception).
i can understand being frustrated by current limitations of epub, which are to be expected (it's a young standard, still being defined, and viewers are young too), but i think the potential is worth getting excited over even now. and the more support epub gets, the faster the standard (and the viewers) will improve.
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I honestly think it's not only and not even most importantly a viewer problem that keeps the epub format from taking off from the ground it hobbles along now.
The REAL problem is the fact that there is no (not a single one) application that is a real easy and handy tool to create epub books but also incorporating the powerful feature possibilities of the epub format.
And do not even begin to talk about InDesign here, because I was speaking about an "easy and handy" tool!
Ergo: Make the creation of feature laden epub books easy and affordable and off you go (cf Mobipocket creator)