Thread: Why publishers format ebooks differently than paper books?
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Old 01-12-2014, 05:49 AM   #59
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Originally Posted by eschwartz View Post
Well, this thread is a depressing lesson in human stupidity. Why DO they do these things?

Personally, if editing an ebook to adjust for my personal preferences, I like to follow a basic rule of
<h2>Chapter #</h2>
<p>paragraph with <b>bold</b> and <i>italic</i> words (maybe).</p>
<p class="scenebreak">* * *</p>
and a text-indent on the paragraphs, center the chapter, center and marginize the scenebreak.

As a reader, mostly of Fiction where pictures are perhaps not as common, I find it difficult to see why any more than that could ever be needed, although I bet the experts here could find something to prove me wrong.
Oh, sometimes you need more than that; representing letters, poetry, or chat rooms comes to mind. Still, when I ran a small ezine, I gave my writers that same basic rundown and told 'em that if they needed something else, just let me know in the cover email when they sent the piece.
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