My apologies in advance for the off-topic.
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InDesign is the best option for me to create epubs. It creates very clean code if used correctly. Not sure what AIPe's problem is with it. Maybe he/she could elaborate.
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Well, paying hundreds of dollars for a tool that:
- is not conceived for authoring eBooks,
- has the very nasty habit of messing around the code (see Liz Castro's blog to see the hacks that you need to perform to make up for InDesign's deficiencies...), and
- needs extra (paid) scripts to perform basic regex S&R
is not really what I would call "optimal strategy", especially considering that I can get the same result using free software and a bit of (basic) knowledge of XHTML/XML/EPUB specs.
But I agree that anyone should maximize her or his own objective function, and, you know, studying is harder and requires much more time* than just paying Adobe.
* In my opinion, InDesign is not really a time-saver, because one should also count the time spent looking for the "hacks" needed to make InDesign produce what you want...