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Originally Posted by JSWolf
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Interesting but fallacious. By his standards, a fixed layout epub would not be considered an ebook format -- after all, it is not reflowable which is his major objection to PDF. Not to mention his statement about converting a FLO epub to a standard epub is pretty risible -- I've done it and it ain't pretty nor is it a straightforward process. Admittedly, I'm assuming that what he refers to as a "fixed format" epub is what the rest of the world calls a fixed layout epub.
As for uploading them to major ebook retailers? Try explaining that the ebook you want to sell is a fixed layout epub3 which will need special renaming to work as intended on a Kobo touch interface ereader and will look very strange on most other ereaders (other than Kindles which won't display them at all). Apple/iBooks will accept them but the Apple fixed layout format has some differences from the IDPF fixed layout standard -- one local children's books author was swearing at those differences a few months back.