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Originally Posted by charleski
Creating epubs requires mix of typographic and technical skills equivalent to those needed to design a physical book.
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I'd say that having skills typically associated with web design is 90% of knowing how to create a good epub. The skills used in making a physical book are IMO not that much related. What are the chances that someone creating physical books knows XHTML and CSS? And where do classic typography skills come into play for epub where the layout is left entirely to the Reading Systems? Sure, they matter, but not as much as we'd like.
I'm not saying there is no overlap between skills used in making physical books and epubs, I'm just saying it's small.