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Originally Posted by phillipgessert
I doubt questionable ebook formatting will go away before the desire to make em look like print editions does. That sort of thinking slots the ebook into second-class citizen status that is difficult to overcome. Dodgy ebooks often get their start in print-first workflows where print-focused decisions were made at every step, undoing them being time-consuming and unpopular. And the idea that the ebook could surpass the print edition, just in ways the print edition couldn't target in the first place, is not given much real priority in those scenarios.
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We kind of went through this in the early days of the web, when web page designers were people with a print background; Pagemaker, Indesign, Quark, etc. and, for an example, they kept trying to get a fixed layout like they could with a printed page. Who can forget page layouts that used tables or spacing with zero width gifs?