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Originally Posted by ChesterFritz
What makes epub difficult to work with is that there is a great lack of good word processors which allow you to create epub books. Sigil is one that I have used in the past, but it is far from the user-friendly interface you would have with the traditional office word processor. You have to constantly switch between text and html mode and constantly do manual tweaking to get everything the way you want. If you have ever done web development, you will see that getting everything aligned and formatted perfectly to be accurately viewable across multiple platforms can be a tiring task. The same can be said for getting pictures and text appropriately aligned in Sigil. Word documents give you much more flexibility for formatting and aligning your text and pictures than Sigil or other epub software I have tried.
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That has absolutely nothing to do with the use of HTML, and everything to do with the tools you use.
Microsoft has put a lot of money into MSWord. And the FLOSS community has put a great deal of time into LibreOffice/OpenOffice/similar. So they work well.
Inside the same programs that create them.
Now consider -- you create a book in Sigil and expect it to look good in another pogram/app -- naturally that will take tweaking.
Also -- ebooks are a much smaller market. For example, Microsoft doesn;t view it as big enough to invest in making and selling a Micosoft Office Books, now do they?
Nevertheless, there are some tools out there.
What you are really complaining about, if you think about it, is the youth of the ebook marketplace...