Adobe offers us a great set of tools, no doubt, but is should work to release a standalone EPUB editor. Let’s face it: InDesign is a great tool for print publishing, but it does not make the grade when it comes to crafting EPUBs. It needlessly complicates things that are pretty straightforward. Anyone who has used Sigil for 10 minutes knows this. Instead of offering 'training' videos and resources that make users believe that InDesign ‘does EPUB’, Adobe should separate the wheat from the chaff and get to work on a standalone EPUB tool. Let InDesign fulfill its traditional role and move on to something else instead of adding layers of complexity to a product that was designed for something else. A word of advice for would-be EPUB editors flirting with InDesign: don’t even think about it, learn basic HTML + CSS in two weeks and move on to Sigil (you'll learn that adding a class is easier than you think). In sum: lets stop the ‘group think’ and face up to the facts, the facts of user testing and usability.
I’ll still enjoy my Cloud membership and use other great Adobe tools, but I will not put my mental health at risk trying to do EPUBS with ol’ InDesign. Just my penny in the pot…
