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Originally Posted by HarryT
HTML is a semantic standard - it defines "purpose", not appearance. Eg the "<em>" tag specifies that text should be emphasised...
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...and HTML forces us to use it for everything that requires italics: not only emphasis, but book titles, characters thoughts, and everything else which would require specific markup tags in a sane book format.
HTML mixes up logical and physical layout when creating the simplest fiction elements: letters, titlepages, poems—they have to be imitated by CSS styles.
Also EPUB cannot handle metadata: there is no support for genres, series, translations, artists...