Hi Jeroen, Isn't your 'extorsion attempt' a bit off the mark? Why not go on submitting to PG in the usual way, and put your nice epubs on some other site? We cannot expect PG to offer too many varieties of their texts; there will always be new toys for which people want to have special formats. I have submitted over 700 books to PG, and my solution has always been the following: 1. Submit well-proofed and standardised 8-bit texts with mark-up for italics, poetry, letters etc. 2. Generated html (re Marcello) is quite sufficient in 98 % of the cases. Not too pretty, but functional. 3. In special cases I must prepare the html version myself. Page numbers are included only when there is some academic reason for them, dropcaps etc. never. I've never had any clashes with whitewashers, they've always been very diplomatic and co-operative even with my mistakes. Most people on this list, to be sure, consider my work to be complete trash and worthless, but I know better. In the Nordic countries, 'text is king', other formats are nice additions. The old 7-bit ASCII was an abomination, but I'm still grateful to Greg for talking Michael around and accepting 8-bit text. Now utf-8 is even better. PG is a repository of digitised books with emphasis on pure text. Why? Michael thought far ahead; look how other formats are changing the whole time, and that's why you continue to have your religious wars without end or solution (I'm not going to be involved!). So, let's work more and talk less. Tapio 2012/10/3 Jeroen Hellingman <jeroen@bohol.ph>:
If my not-dumbed-down for the lowest denominator readers HTMLs would become no-longer accepted, I will no longer submit anything to PG, but set-up my own ebook site with like minded people. You can only ask that much from volunteers who work hard to produce nice things. I've submitted over 500 books so far.
Jeroen.