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Originally Posted by Moejoe
What we need is that 'press here to create' simplicity for ePub. My html/css skills are rusty, but I know my way around, still I find myself thinking "If I could just load up a properly formated word-processing document and have ePub as an output format, life would be so much simpler."
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I'm strongly in favor of this. I haven't really looked at ePub because I can't create them myself; I tried eCub and it scrambled things. I'd love to have a "push to create ePub" plugin--or even stand-alone program--that'd work with Word docs or RTFs. (Or even HTML, although my HTML creation is shaky at best.)
It'd help, but it wouldn't replace PDFs. EPub is not a print-ready format.
I work in litigation support & digital archiving. This last week & a half, a team of three of us scanned ~80,000 pages of archives for a medical firm and converted them to PDFs. They aren't being OCR'd or converted to ebook formats; they're going into a database somewhere in case the physical files are damaged. And they'll possibly be available online for some of their employees, who might need to reprint "the January '02 emails & certifications for creating the lab in Mayberry."
EPub can't replace the corporate & litigation uses of PDF, which means that PDF "ebooks" will remain simple to use for most people.