[benmanns]

Most eBooks are produced by creating a new InDesign ebook document from the existing InDesign print document. Then you fiddle with a bunch of stuff to make it look right (removing the forced line breaks and such you did to get the print document looking how you want it, etc). That's then exported to ePub, which is a zip of some HTML, CSS, images, and fonts. The code outputted is absolutely terrible, as one used to get creating webpages with WYSIWYG Dreamweaver et al. and causes a lot of issues that have to be fiddled with in InDesign, manually corrected in the unzipped export, or frequently just left in the final book.

There really should be a better eBook specific authoring system. Ideally with importing from the print document, as that's the canonical version. It's just a website, after all, and we have great tools for building those.

[grecy]

I use pandoc to covert the source latex into an epub, then massage the result a little to tweak a few things. It’s all scripted and works extremely well.

details here: http://theroadchoseme.com/how-i-self-published-a-professiona...