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Originally Posted by fbrzvnrnd
I do not understand. Why you said fixed is more expensive? I see many big publisher in Italy uses EPUB3 fixed when have to create ebook too hard to paginate in ePub2. They simple do not make a new project for the reflow version, but export from indesign in EPUB3 fixed. It is cheap.
I build last year a reflow EPUB3 with different animation for electronic poetry. Well, build an EPUB3 with code *is* more expensive: you need someone to think/write/test the code.
Fabrizio
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Fabrizio:
You're
assuming that the source is InDesign. We get scads of stuff (that's not really the word, but, you know, family-friendly forum), and much of it is not in INDD. Hell, I get "kids' books" made in POWERPOINT, brother. I get them in Word. I get them on PAPER. I get them in PDF, made with god-knows-what. Seriously, I kid thee not. You want to try to make a fixed-layout ePUB, from that stuff, knock yourself out.
And yes, we get the usual, embedded audio, yabba-dabba-do. So, yeah, IMHO, it's a crapload more work than reflowable. Sure, we could do what some folks do--just slap jpegs of the pages in, and call it done, but we like to make them the right way, no matter the source material. Silly b*ggers, I know.
(n.b.: you can upload a direct-from-INDD ePUB to iBooks--but in my experience, it's a LOT better to clean it up first. Just offered FWIW.)
Hitch