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The Redshelf people neither understand epubs or real electronic texts. It sounds like they are in a 1990s bubble of emulating the PDF concept in a web page.
Also educational stuff or ANYTHING written that can only be consumed while online smells of the worst sort of DRM.
I've just finished the first draft of our in house style guide for our folk. It mentions that real ebooks don't have page numbers. headers, footers or page sizes. Not even real margins. That's all done by the reader gadget or app. The ebook Type/Format is irrelevant.
OTOH, the step before paper output is to make a PDF from the WP text. Then you need a page size, headers, footers, real margins, consider if mirrored with a binding offset (tricky as if it goes out by a page it's doomed) etc. Then you make the PDF. The only things to be done then is preview on a giant screen and order a proof print. Unless you've a high end laser printer that takes the print size and does duplex etc, it's not worth trying to print yourself.
I know there are technical documents that need fixed layout on a screen. Then a PDF that works on a 10" tablet is the best solution.
Web pages are not a fixed size.
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