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Originally Posted by Marcy
This seems to be their major problem. They were trying to control every aspect of the presentation and you just can't do that with an epub. One of my favorite things about ereading is that *I* control the look and can set the font, font size, line spacing, paragraph spacing, etc. based on my preferences.
When e-publishing you need to accept that the reader can change these things instead of obsessing over ever detail of how the book will look.
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Exactly. That and the fact that those guys, like most ePub major publishers, don't have a frigging clue as to how to create an ePub. It isn't rocket science. Relying on a bloated Adobe product to design and produce a lean ePub is stupid because Adobe products were designed to produce bloated crap like PDFs. They first need to spend a year learning HTML and what H1, H2, H3, P, etc. are used for. (Most of us learned this in minutes, but those guys are extra stupid so give them a year.) Then they need to be whipped to within an inch of their lives every time they use CSS to hardcode unwanted formatting.