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To this day, I still create all my web pages in WordStar "non-document mode," which is just about the same thing as writing a book in Sigil Code View. But for a book, and sometimes for a first draft for a complicated web page, I start out in WordStar "document mode" because it's ever so much faster for editing. The file has the extension *.ws7, which (with a Microsoft add-in) enables it to be opened in Word. I also have a WS add-in for Word, so most (but not all, and not as brilliantly executed) WordStar editing commands are still available to me. Then I use an online service to get clean html (Word's html is pretty awful IMHO) which I open in or paste into Sigil. Seems complex, but faster and easier for me.
I agree that the search for an all-in-one solution is a honey trap. Much better to find the combination that works for you, then perfect that combination.
Oh, and for the print edition I open that same Word doc in OpenOffice Writer, which I find (again) faster & easier for me. And makes a splendid PDF of the perfected book.
If you happen to be a Mac user, Mac-happy author-publishers are insanely in love with Vellum for making ebooks. But then they're insane about almost anything Mac-worthy.
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