Producing EPUB format

I am pondering the possibility of producing an EPUB version of my first E-book. It I were to do so it would remove it from the Kindle Select category and drop the royalty to 35% from 70%, but it is inconvenient for folks who don’t have a kindle reader.

I started looking at Smashwords. It converts your book to multiple formats and sends them to all the major E-book outlets. Sounds great, but you discover that their “meatgrinder” converter doesn’t allow for footnotes…vital to my present book. And the table of contents cannot be direct-built in WORD…manually add bookmarks!!! ugh!

Kobo has a converter, but again, they are not clear about what is allowed…no tables, I believe.

For now I think I’ll stay with Kindle.