[ShellShock]

I have just got my latest Asimov's Science Fiction epub, and the publisher has now decided to format it into two columns, a skeuomorphic attempt to emulate the print magazine. It looks horrible, and that is on a Kobo Aura HD; I hate to think what it looks like on a smaller 6" screen.

To add insult to injury, they achieved this dubious technical feat by using the epub-standard breaking Adobe extensions (ade:template), and compounded this by the worst sin of all: rather than creating a single xpgt file to define the page layout, instead the publisher has inserted a huge ade:template element inline into each xml file in the epub. This makes it time consuming to strip out.

I have worked around the two column problem by replacing column-count="2" with column-count="1", which makes the necessary changes to all the inline ade:templates.

Anyway, how do you like your emagazines/enewpapers: one or two columns?