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I thought drop-caps were a splendid idea, until Amazon exploded the notion when they changed the line spacing default and I had to go back and remove them from several books. Very irritating.
Not only do I not use them now, but I notice that the same is true of a majority (if not most) books from mainstream publishers.
Self-pubbers on the KDP forums are forever arguing that e-books are different so shouldn't be held to traditional book-making standards -- for example, that e-books should be "left justified," oxymoronic as that may be. But they may have a point in the case of drop-caps. They may be vanishing now, just as the punctuation mark before or after the em dash vanished a century ago.
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