Epub to iPad

I am trying to get a finished epub to an iPad. I have the file in my dropbox folder. When I copy the link and email the link to my iPad, every thing seems to be working fine. But when I try to download the file i get:
Download Failed
Safari cannot download this file.
I do have two iPads and one (the master) has the dropbox app. I am able to download all my epubs (10) to the (master) and open them in iBooks just fine. So the only difference is the dropbox app, vs. the dropbox link. I need to send some of these epubs out to others for testing but they can not download.
Any ideas?
Thanks for your help!

I'm not quite sure how Safari would handle a Dropbox link.
If it isn't very large you should be able to email the document rather than the link, and then open it from the ipad email app onto whatever ereader app you are using.

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http://ebookarchitects.com/
http://www.kindleformatting.com/ (I know it's not iBooks-related, but it's full of good info)

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