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But the margins are from the publisher. ePub looks how it looks based on what the publisher did when making the ePub.
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My local library recently acquired two ePub books that my wife had already bought through Sony (Charlaine Harris novels, if anyone cares). Now that Sony has gone ePub I've re-downloaded, and compared the ePubs from the two different sources.
The filesizes are within 1KB of each other. The content looks identical, but the margins/formatting are diffrerent. The epubs from the library (i.e. from Overdrive) have margins that more or less match a physical book - including the cover, which is an "Ace Books, New YorK" Title page with a margin-like border around it. The Sony copy has the exact same title page, but a bit "bigger", i.e. with smaller margins. The inside is the same. Sony's has much smaller margins.
This really bothers me. I would have hoped that an ePub would be the same (made by the publisher) no matter where I bought it from. I do not like that there is a difference between these files, and it makes me wonder how other stores compare. If I had the money I'd like to pick 10 books and buy them from all the available ePub-selling stores, and compare them. If one store was consistenly different from the others, I wouldn't buy from them. Do they all do their own conversion job from something the publisher gives them (maybe HTML)? Are they all a bit different?