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Originally Posted by JeremyR
I don't think it's so much laziness, so much as there aren't any readily available tools for the average person to create mobi books for Amazon.
You either have Kindlegen, which requires a knowledge of computers (it's a command line program) and HTML (knowing what ncx and opf files are), or you have a plugin for an extremely expensive professional layout program.
Amazon needs to come out with a WYSIWYG editor for Mobi.
I mean, yes, obviously someone could learn HTML and so forth, they'd rather, you know, be writing books.
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I think that is one advantage that ePub has. Some of the apps that people may already have are beginning to support it. I mean, InDesign isn't an uncommon app for those in the publishing world, and it supports ePub. Plus there is Sigil now, which works really well to make good epubs, without a lot of knowledge, and is free.