title_body: How to create ePub with title page from LaTeX source using pandoc
upvoted_answer: I was able to work around the issue as follows:
  
  $ pandoc -S -o mybook.markdown   mybook.tex 
  $ pandoc -S -o mybook.epub --epub-cover-image=images/my_cover.png  title.txt  mybook.markdown
  
  
  By converting the LaTeX file to markdown, the second pandoc command was able to apply the Title, Author and Date information in title.txt to the epub file.