BB>use a light-markup format like .zml as your master, from which you generate _good_ versions of all the formats your users desire, and everyone gets happy. Just to state the obvious, there is nothing stopping any volunteer from taking the approach that BB suggests. If anyone has a book well-represent in txt70, I don't think PG is going to refuse to accept it. Or, for that matter RST pretty much matches BB's desires, so that shouldn't be an issue either. So, why all this "HTML BS" ? Um, it is because the volunteers *want* it. If a volunteer *doesn't* want it, then they have lots of other options. Now personally I would have no objections if PG wants to make derivative book formats from txt70 -- in fact they already do so. But that is *not* what BB is *actually* talking about. Rather, BB is talking about trying to *force* all volunteers to do it his way or the highway. But that doesn't work. If volunteers want to work in HTML, they will simply go elsewhere. And now we have volunteers wanting to work in EPUB, and PG is denying that. And they go elsewhere. Now if PG were smart enough or motivated enough to track down all these little "snowflake" efforts and change them back into txt70 and/or RST and/or ZML and/or PG-TEI-Lite or the PG-Pig-Latin-Du-Jour *then* you might have a good arguments for chasing away volunteer contributions. But, given that PG *is not* smart enough or motivated to track down and dumbify back down all these individual efforts, wouldn't it be better to *encourage* volunteers to submit their efforts to PG in the first place? In file formats that actually motivates them to make a book to contribute to PG in the first place? Because, for example, I simply have no none zero nada interesting in creating and submitting books in txt70 and other dumbified formats for you. I can always find other places to post my HTML and/or EPUB efforts with a lot less heartaches.