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Old 05-15-2016, 12:13 PM   #11
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The reason commercial publishing cant get away from exporting from inDesign is because of workflow. Although we work to have a final manuscript before taking it into layout, we always make corrections. So that would require keeping two versions up to date.

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tldr; Don't be afraid of a well-formed, current InDesign file.
Exactly right. Most of our books are released in e-book as well as print, and we like to have one master document, with all edits and corrections, for both. That's the ID file (albeit a few tweaks are needed to the print-ready ID file before exporting to epub).

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