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Originally Posted by seed_html
There's a new easy way to create a valid EPUB 3 file.
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Not
so new, maybe. It’s just a
Pandoc one-liner to create a finished, valid and astonishingly good-looking EPUB3 from Markdown, and I’ve been using it for far more than a decade now (EPUB2 at the beginning). If needed, extra polishing could be done using Sigil or the like. The same source files can even be used to produce a print-ready 5x8 or 6x9 PDF in a snap.
I personally know many editors that still prefer raw TXT or Markdown, and I know many novelists that prefer distraction-free working with software like
Ghostwriter,
Manuskript,
NovelWriter and others.
Concentrate on content, not a zillion clicky glitzy options. Or get lured into font and formatting options they would typically use the wrong way. They’re
authors.
Publishers shall do the work of publishing.
Many, if not most, authors
do use Word or LO Writer, agreed. Everyone tells them to (not the best advice in my opinion), or they just like the easier workflow with their editors when it comes to corrections.
With the advent of self-publishing, we’ve seen a lot of rubbish appear, naturally. Crappy content, technically almost unusable EPUBs, but sadly also good content packaged in EPUBs done wrong. And of course textbooks and academic writing are an entirely different beast. With these, you’d also have to follow rather stringent publisher or university rules.
That said, why not have another option? Everything seems to go the "cloud" and "in the browser" way. It’s just some authors prefer to not get distracted (that’s so easy if online!), or write in places where they aren’t online.