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Originally Posted by Solitaire1
One thing I think would improve ebooks is to have one mastering format that is used to format the actual ebook. It would be extremely verbose, leaving absolutely no guesswork when it comes to ebook formatting.
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No, that's rubbish. Like a worprocessor where you can't change styles or templates. Some big companies do that and produce rubbish. You'd need 100s of redundant styles to cover all the common kinds of publications. Or like a spreadsheet that's locked and only lets you enter data for one use case.
Or like a DTP program that only lets you produce one format of document.
I think maybe Amazon had a stupid Paste & Go ebook creator like that.
The source document should decide the formatting.
Edit:
Amazon do take an uploaded reflowable epub from the publisher and automatically make mobi/KFX, azw3/KF8 and maybe two or three kinds of KFX in advance and then deliver the appropriate file according to model of Kindle or an app. Only the AZW3 is close to original. The results are worse if docx (or worse is doc) are uploaded, especially the document misuses styles, formatting etc.
They handle fixed layout (which includes PDF) differently.