[Katsunami]

In my opinion, this is only a bunch of designers moaning about the fact that they are losing control of "their" e-books. The same happened 10-15 years ago; designers approached websites as if they were posters. They wanted users to not be able to change the fonts, the sizes of the elements, and they wanted the 'back' button disabled. The current trend is to make huge sticky menu's and headers, use huge white spaces, and tiny, light gray fonts because it 'looks slick and modern'; for many people, those websites are actually unusable.

For me, the entire point of an e-reader is that you can choose your own font type and size, your own line spacing, and your own margins (which is, or is not useful depending on the reader).

A book can be designed beautifully, but if it has a 6pt grey font on reflective paper, I probably can't read it, so it's then useless to me. Except for the cover, most books I read (novels) don't require any design apart from maybe the chapter headers. The rest is all about making the book as readable as possible.