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Originally Posted by hobnail
I'm always puzzled as to why people are using InDesign. I'm guessing that the majority of books people asking questions here are writing fiction and in an ebook those don't need much beyond h and p tags. But they're probably planning on producing a printed book as well as an ebook so a page layout program is needed. But InDesign seems like overkill for a novel.
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You're looking at it from the ebook myopia. Yes, 99%, she's creating a print layout. We deal with that at my shop, too. If we were only designing ebooks, hell, we'd do it in Word, by and large and then in HTML.
But, oddly enough, print has undergone a massive resurgence in the self-publishing industry. Trulytrulytrue.* We invested a fair amount of time mapping some standardized Indd styles to CSS. But we still make a lotta lotta eBooks for other publishers and those are all INDD files over which we have zero control or influence, so...
*My best guesstimate is, giveaways, book signings and some rather madcap marketing plans involving leaving printed books around cities in unique spots.
Hitch