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Originally Posted by DNSB
Unfortunately, most authors consider Amazon to be their most important market. Something about 90% of ebook sales whispers money in their ears. Sadly, being dedicated to eating and keeping a roof over their heads, filthy lucre attracts them faster than moths to a light.
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Absolutely more than 90% world wide for English and more than half of ebooks are read on phones, next is tablets, then eink Kindles.
The Alice example won't be good on a phone and on Amazon it would need to be either images each on their own line (to suit phones) and/or as Print Replica/PDF wrapped. Since it's for children and smallest read on paper and next up is kids' tablets I'd do an epub2 with images each on their own line that works on 100% or eink and all Kindle, Kobo, Nook, epub apps on phones AND a pdf on POD (paper) and offered as PDF/Print replica on tablet.
Maybe 99.9% or more of novels (not text books or children's books) have no benefit from Indesign, Vellum or handcrafted epub3. Some epub3 are simply convoluted alternatives with no mainstream publishing outlet for either PDF or apps.
The Alice book is totally untypical of novels for grown ups or even teenagers. Modern equivalent would be the "Wizard of Once" series and "How to Train your Dragon" series. I know kids that read those and have ereaders and tablets. They read stuff like that on paper. I agree replicatating those as a somewhat reflowable ebooks would use epub3. They have nothing that would read such an ebook (though probably something could be installed on the iPads or Fire tablet), but could manage PDF (or Kindle Print Replica based on PDF).