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Originally Posted by exaltedwombat
If you're making eBooks that need to be portable between various EPUB and Kindle devices, you need to develop a throughly non-anal mindset! You can be fairly confident the words will come out in the right order. Your paragraphs may be indented, they may be separated by white space, but they will be recognisible. Headings will be distinguishable from body text. But that's about it - and I'm not joking! There are so many variables, and so many ways the customer can mess things up with settings and preferences.
You can choose a picture format that you think guarantees the caption will be on the same page. But then a customer will decide to always hold his device in landscape format... The sure way to make a caption stick with its picture is to incorporate it in the graphic. But then the text size will be unpredictable, which can be quite annoying.
I recently moved across to the dark side and designed a book for print. It was quite a wrench to adjust to being in charge of everything - typeface, line ends, spacing, headers, page numbers - and they would show the same for all readers! :-)
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Thanks wombat. I actually considered submitting the manuscript to a major print publisher instead. I'm still half-considering it. But I hear what you're saying... have to just do a good job and realize the limits of the e-book industry at this point (i.e. the nonconformity compounded by the extraneous variables of all the devices). I'm starting to get it...