I've been using the epubmaker website to experiment with RST and so far everything works well except for the .. pgfooter tag.  If I put it in I get this:

Input file: AStudyOfTheBhagavataPurana.rst
EpubMaker version 0.3.19b4
<string>:11826: (ERROR/3) Unexpected indentation.
<string>:11827: (WARNING/2) Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
:66: (SEVERE/4) Title level inconsistent:

Section 1. General Terms of Use & Redistributing Project Gutenberg\u2122 electronic works
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/epubmaker", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('epubmaker==0.3.19b4', 'console_scripts', 'epubmaker')()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/epubmaker-0.3.19b4-py2.6.egg/epubmaker/EpubMaker.py", line 369, in main
    exception ("%s" % what)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2122' in position 109: ordinal not in range(128)

If I leave it off everything works but of course I don't have the footer.

You can check out what I'm doing here:

http://epubmaker.pglaf.org/cache/20120405084734/

James Simmons