A good epub & ebook maker for Mac?

I've spent the last 10 days looking for a good, effective, convenient epub maker for the Mac. I gotta say it's scam country out there in this regard.
The only workable ones I've found are InDesign, of course, Jutoh, eCub, Wondershare. And none of them really thrill me. 
Epub seems to have fairly limited possibilities, so there ought to be several independent, low cost softwares for putting together .epub files. InDesign feels like using a bazooka to shoot a sparrow, and the others listed above have one or more problems--inconsistent, don't quite work as advertised, so simple that they limit your options even within the limited epub option set.
And that PDF TO EPUB converter that's advertised as about 30 different programs really doesn't work very well at all.
I'd appreciate any suggestions from folks here.  Thanks.

Pages if definitely the way to go if your intention is to create a traditional book— i.e. one in which the text and graphical elements are free flowing throughout the document, without regard to page design. However, if your intention is to create a fixed layout book where you want to have total control of the page layout (i.e. a digital coffee table book of art or photography, a cookbook, or an illustrated book), Pages really isn't the way to go. For that you generally need a fully blown page layout application such as InDesign, or you have to b a bit resourceful to otherwise generate the XHTML and CSS necessary to accurately describe your pages.
My recent fixed layout book of fine art photography, Plastic Prophets of Vinyl Redemption, has a lot of very sophisticated page designs (full bleed, two page spreads, layered graphics, rotated text, Javascript, and all kinds of craziness) and was designed and created without Pages, InDesign, Calibre, or any of the usual suspects — but the process was surprisingly easy! I'm planning a lengthy blog post describing how I was able to do all this without high end tools.
Stay tuned!

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