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The difference is printed books can be tweaked by hand (and an author can even choose a different wording) to avoid widows and orphans (not bastards). The book will typically be printed in a single size, so it can be crafted as carefully as needed. With ebooks, the final "page" could be any size, as can the font, linespacing, etc. so it is impossible to desing the "perfect page". Instead, we have to rely on automatic algorithms to typeset the pages, and sadly current renderers use very simplistic ones. But this is something that should be dealt with by the reading software, not by the book creator.
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