Passive Guy mentioned a fairly painless program last week called Jutoh which takes a great deal of the PITA formatting etc. out of eBook formatting. I agree, without something like that, it is just maddening. I had one book up on Amazon that I had to pull down because the illustrations didn't make it into the final text. Amazon failed to mention that if your manuscript has any illustrations at all in the old KDP model, you had to put it in as a zip file. Now that I have Jutoh, and am nearing a point where it will be uploaded once again, I will let you know how it turns out. So far so good.

And yes, reading contracts is important - which is why I suggested the three blogs that I did. Passive Guy (PG) is an attorney, and he will be uploading an analysis of the Amazon contract, etc. Other publishers, especially with eRights, it is becoming clear that they do NOT care about the authors as much as they might have in the past and that their main concern is maintaining their relevance and profit margins in an industry that is currently changing at an astounding pace.