http://skinnywhitegirl.com/blog/my-nerd-story/1101

yes! 2014 is the year of the smart sexy strong woman!

-bowerbird







http://publishingperspectives.com/2014/08/why-amazon-was-right-to-explain-who-george-orwell-is/

it might have been that amazon was accenting the fact that
it is authors who are the ÒbrandÓ that a book makes ÒfamousÓ.

not publishers.

and unless you can tell us, without looking, the publisher of
animal farm, 1984, and all art is propaganda, amazon wins.

-bowerbird










http://epubsecrets.com/rtf-epub-with-a-layover-in-indesign.php

>   I am always interested in efficiencies. 
>   If you have any ideas about how to smooth out this process, 
>   please do leave a comment.

i'd suggest you learn some light-markup (e.g., markdown).

the .rtf would convert to light-markup quickly and easily,
retaining styling and structure, which then moves you
directly to .html, where a little scripting gives you .epub.

i'd guess that approach would take about half the time
of the indesign-mediated workflow you described here.
(and i'd not be surprised if it took a quarter of the time,
given your recently-noted fluency with find-and-replace.)

plus you and your client would then have master-texts
that would be _much_ simpler to edit, revise, remix, etc.

i encourage you to put the light-markup tool in your chest.
you might be amazed how often it's the most efficient one.

-bowerbird











http://blog.lmorchard.com/2014/10/09/separating-publishing-from-hosting-on-the-web


i think it's ironic that you work for mozilla.

because i think it's ironic mozilla hasn't already
created such a simple system, which is obviously
needed, and been asked for by countless people,
some of whom have asked for it countless times.

there's no money in this -- by design -- so there is
certainty that a for-profit company will never do it.

on the other hand, if we only had a company that
was a "global, non-profit organization dedicated to
making the web better, one that emphasized principle
over profit, and believed that the web is a shared public 
resource to be cared for, not a commodity to be sold",
then surely we would already _have_ this service, right?

i'm just sayin'...

-bowerbird




i'm glad you didn't take it personally.

i don't mean it personally.

even for the people who make the decisions,
and who probably _should_ take it personally.

-bowerbird