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Originally Posted by NuMor
I realise now I will have to forego a bit of control at this level, and understand also that, in e-books, the author cannot really control anything – apart from content.
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While ebooks and pbooks are very different, I want to ensure that you didn't get the wrong idea from what I said:
The formatting is just as critical for ebooks, you're just controlling different aspects. You're telling the reader software what the blocks of text contain and letting the software decide how they should look. There are many poorly formatted ebooks out there where the publisher didn't put any effort into specifying those details, leaving the reader software with no information on how it should format the text and making it look like garbage.
(by software I mean either a program running on a traditional computer, or that which is built into a dedicated reading device, such as the Kindle)