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Old 09-04-2012, 05:44 AM   #1
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news to epublishing, but not to publishing in general
I do volunteer work with a small publishing firm in Kandy, Sri Lanka. I have been doing page layout (typsetting) for years. Now the publishing firm would like to put much of its book online for free distribution in various e-book formats. We already make them available in html and pdf formats. We want to add epub and mobi to the list.

I ran into this ominous gem in the calibre manual:

"calibre does not guarantee that an EPUB produced by it is valid. The only guarantee it makes is that if you feed it valid XHTML 1.1 + CSS 2.1 it will output a valid EPUB. calibre is designed for ebook consumers, not producers. It tries hard to ensure that EPUBs it produces actually work as intended on a wide variety of devices, a goal that is incompatible with producing valid EPUBs, and one that is far more important to the vast majority of its users. If you need a tool that always produces valid EPUBs, calibre is not for you."

Well, luckily I do my web stuff in xhtml 1.0 strict, so am I correct in assuming there's no need to worry?

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Old 09-04-2012, 08:40 AM   #2
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Old 09-04-2012, 08:47 AM   #3
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You might want to look at jutoh and sigil. What format are you books in ?
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Old 09-05-2012, 12:27 AM   #4
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Old 09-05-2012, 06:10 PM   #5
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Hell sadhu44. I'm also learning how to make ePub now (slow pace though) to enable wider distribution of free stories on my site. There's lot of good information on this forum, so be sure to spend some time to familiarize yourself. Welcome
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