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Old 02-26-2025, 03:48 PM   #3530
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Originally Posted by Solitaire1 View Post
I've wondered why e-book formatting is such as issue. It should be easy to create an ebook that will render properly on all e-reading devices. I thought that was supposed to be one of the main advantages of the EPUB format, but that doesn't seem to be the case. I'm beginning to think that basic HTML might be a better format for ebooks (it's open source, easy to code by hand using just a text editor, and flexible).
It is HTML under the hood of ePub. You can easily screw up the format of HTML with CSS.

The problem is the publishers trying to make the eBook look like the pBook and failing because the pBook format does not work as an eBook in most cases.

What publishers need to do is make an eBook properly without trying to duplicate the pBook.
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