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Originally Posted by exaltedwombat
I'm afraid the fact that your ebooks (and mine), although designed in EPUB will probably have their main distribution in Kindle format has to be a guilty secret. The Sigil community ethos is that Kindle is outside the pale and not to be pandered to.
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Absolutely untrue. Kindle is a mainstream, huge player in the ebook game, and we openly acknowledge that. I have Kindle devices, I buy, edit and create Kindle books all the time. It's not about "pandering" or a petty dislke for the Kindle formats. It's just that were focussed on creating software that allows users to create compliant EPUBS. What they do with those EPUBS after they're created is simply not Sigil's concern or bailiwick. As such, we're not that interested in adding new, inherent features to Sigil in order to accomodate various vendors' proprietary quirks and/or deviations from the EPUB standard.
In my opinion, we've basically "pandered" to every ebook creator out there by creating a plugin framework for Sigil which allows any and all vendor quirks and proprietary additions/modifications to be accomodated.
Sigil's an EPUB editor--plain and simple. Any feature requests that have nothing to do with EPUB (specifically its open-standard implementation) will likely be met with the standard "
that's perfectly suited for a plugin" response. That's why we cared enough to create the Sigil plugin framework in the first place: so we could say, "
if you just ...", instead of, "
nope, no way."
That you refuse to acknowledge the distinction, and assume our reluctance to add "Kindle" (or Kobo, or iBooks) features to an EPUB editor is based on some petty, idealistic dislike for Amazon is unfortunate--but misguided.
We help people make compliant EPUBs with our program here at Sigil. There are plenty of people/places who can help you take that EPUB and massage it into whatever sort of non-standard hybrid your vendor of choice requires (and even provide a plugin framework that will allow Sigil to produce that hybrid).