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ePub and Mobi are variants of HTML. You can sell a magazine marked up with <em>valid, semantic</em> HTML and styled with CSS all by yourself, with no help from Amazon or Apple. This would require you to actually know that HTML involves semantic markup and that ePub and Mobi are variants of it.";s:12:"comment_type";s:0:"";s:14:"comment_parent";s:1:"0";s:7:"user_ID";s:1:"0";s:7:"user_ip";s:14:"64.231.161.113";s:10:"user_agent";s:128:"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_4_11; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.19.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.1.3 Safari/533.19.4";s:8:"referrer";s:65:"http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/why-apple-and-publishing-dont-mix/";s:4:"blog";s:22:"http://davidhewson.com";s:9:"blog_lang";s:5:"en_US";s:12:"blog_charset";s:5:"UTF-8";s:9:"permalink";s:65:"http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/why-apple-and-publishing-dont-mix/";s:9:"user_role";s:0:"";s:21:"akismet_comment_nonce";s:6:"passed";s:11:"POST_author";s:9:"Joe Clark";s:10:"POST_email";s:21:"joeclark@joeclark.org";s:8:"POST_url";s:28:"http://joeclark.org/weblogs/";s:12:"POST_comment";s:592:"Your posting could easily have been one-quarter its length and, in any event, the solution to your problem is to divorce yourself from the PageMaker/Quark/“In Design” (sic) mindset that publishing requires a proprietary format. Something else it doesn’t need is a proprietary publisher.

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