Pages won't export to epub

I have a file.pages file which I'm trying to export to ePub format; however, when I do the export, Pages creates a blank icon on my desktop which I can't open with any application. I've tried Author and Publisher, but no luck. Has anyone seen this before?

The normal apps to open an .epub file would be Calibre or Adobe Digital Editions or Kitabu or Bookle or the Firefox addon Epubreader (not the stuff you mentioned).
Do any of those work for you?
On an iOS device, you would use the iBooks app.

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When I go to the the first link you gave # 7 says "To export your Pages document as an ePub document, choose File, Export and make sure ePub is selected as the export format."
From what I read on the page, I've done what needs to be done to export to ePub.
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When you say " The message you have got tells you that you have used the Page Layout template instead of the Word Processing one you need for creating an ePub document."
I'm not sure if you're saying I've done something wrong. If so, where did I go wrong? Was I not supposed to use a template?
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