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Originally Posted by Jeff Duntemann
Sigh. I certainly didn't decide that, nor do I see any significant number of publishers that have. Not all books can be divided into paragraphs. In fact, most of the print books I've published in the last fifteen years or so have typographic or design elements that don't map well onto paragraphs at all.
I'm interested here in how to allow ebooks and pbooks to coexist for the next 20-30 years or so, without breaking current research models. I don't see why a paginated master view can't satisfy all parties, assuming a compiler that can spit out all the major formats. The consumer can ignore the page markers if he/she chooses, but there's no reason for them not to be there, and available to the reader software.
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Because pages are a completely unnecessary artifact of the limitations of paper. There is absolutely no reason to stick with pages now that we are moving on from paper. You can have ebooks co-exists with pbooks by simply using the ebook version rather than the pbook version in new references and using the pbook version for old references.