After reading Charles Stross’s article, “Why Microsoft Word Must Die“, the thought occurred that someone, somewhere might be interested in using Pandoc Markdown for generating ebooks.
If you’re writing fiction, Pandoc is probably too nerdy to bother with. You should use Scrivener, which is highly polished and produces fine ebook output with the press of a button. However, if you like to work with a manuscript as a collection of plain text files that you can check into version control, Pandoc fits the bill nicely. It’s a bit easier to understand than Sphinx, and it can handle anything up to moderately complex technical books.
So in case anyone finds it useful, here’s a project you can use to get started: https://github.com/evangoer/pandoc-ebook-template. Pull requests welcome!