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Originally Posted by JSWolf
There's no difference in look using <em> or <i>. How would you know which the paper edition used?
Same difference with <strong> and <b>.
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Yawn! Yes, there is no difference in visual effect unless someone has set emphasized to something other than italic—I've seen bold a few times.
OTOH, if the book is being read aloud, using <em> or <i> can give different results. Even with a human reading a paper book while they would not see the <em> or <i>, they would change their voice. You may even have noted that when reading books to children when, to use the OP's example, you would speak those words with more emphasis and/or volume while <i>USS Henry M. Jackson</i> would not get emphasis or volume.
Given that a decent majority of the authors whose books I work on now expect me to use accessibility as an important criteria, I use <em> and <i> for their different purposes. To quote from Mozilla developers forum, the <em> element represents stress emphasis of its contents, while the <i> element represents text that is set off from the normal prose. Ditto for <strong> vs <b>. And yes, a decently designed assistive reader will treat the <em> and <i> differently.
Get over yourself, Jon. Some people are concerned with more than how the book looks on their pet brand of ereader.