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The Standard Ebooks versions may be more semantically correct but when the book is only for me that stuff doesn't matter; all I need is decent formatting. They seem to present themselves as the gold standard of semantically correct ebook formatting but in some ways they are wrong. For example, they use blockquote for what I think of as a block; letters, poetry, etc. But if you look at the w3c definition for blockquote it's quite clear that it's really for a quote, like an excerpt. What they could or should be using is the more mundane div. (For example, I have a div class called block that I use for letters, poetry, etc.)
With Standard Ebooks I don't think I've ever seen a book that they've put out that isn't also available elsewhere from the usual places for free. If I'm just reformatting a book to suit my own preferences I'd rather start with one from Project Gutenberg, Faded Page, etc. since there's not so much "junk" to deal with.
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