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Originally Posted by Valloric
If you're a publishing house and your epub doesn't look right in iBooks (or whatever they're calling the built-in epub viewer on the iPad), you don't release the book.
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And what makes you think something looking right in "iBooks" is a guaranty of anything? For all I know it could:
-Not support NCX toc's, or only single-level toc's. Publishers wouldn't bother building books with good hierarchical toc's.
-Not support embedded fonts, or worse, have a set of "default available" fonts. Publishers would have CSS files which refer directly to these fonts, and wouldn't work in any other reader (even worse if some of these fonts are dingbats).
-Have some weird default sizes and margins. Publishers would code the ePubs to override these defaults, which could make them look wrong in other readers.
I've never been an optimist
