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Originally Posted by Lemurion
It's efficient in terms of transmitting information: it makes it clear that this paragraph does not follow directly on from the preceding paragraph.
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The advantage is that it renders the picture/asterisks unnecessary. Every scene needs a first paragraph, it doesn't need pictures or asterisks to indicate scene breaks. <snip>
It's the simplest option in terms of using the fewest design elements.
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I don't agree, but I'm not trying to say you're wrong. It's just not visually obvious to me in ebooks. And I feel no need (in regular fiction) to keep to print-book typographic standards. (I prefer "ragged right" on screen, for example, which I think looks like crap in print).
The Chapter header tells me I'm in a new chapter. I've always thought the non-indent on the first paragraph was overkill. In ebooks, I prefer the first half-dozen words or so of the first paragraph in a scene break to be all caps or bolded, if the publisher didn't insert an actual scene break simple (like asterisks or a little gif).