EPUB Boot Camp: Best Practices

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The document discusses different approaches to producing EPUB files from editorial workflows. It describes Hachette's pilot program which found that standardizing processes through templates and tagging in Word was helpful but tedious. Wiley found Word templates more effective and had compositors convert to XML and add additional tags. The document recommends planning for EPUB from the start, committing to sustained change, and understanding how compositors work with the EPUB DTD.

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