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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
That's probably the key argument you're facing. Saying, "of course they will, when ebooks get popular," is not convincing anyone. PDFs have been plenty popular for years, and other than a handful of RPG gamers, nobody's produced commercial PDFs to fit properly in a computer screen, much less an ebook reader.
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Well... then perhaps this is the whole of our (i.e.: yours and mine) disagreement, Elfwreck.
To me the present-day quality of eBooks is so atrocious that it doesn't sound realistic to me to suggest that this will continue into the time when eBooks become mainstream.
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
the fine points of typography are not important to me.
I like it, but I don't need it. I'd pay extra for it... but not a lot extra.
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There's no reason to pay extra. Getting typography right is trivial and inexpensive. The fact that it isn't done has nothing to do with cost or time considerations, and everything to do with the fact that you and I do not matter to publishers as customers. Once that changes, so will eBooks... and then, publishers will pay attention to typography despite nobody giving a damn or even noticing it, just as they have been doing since the invention of the printing press.
Do you think my reasoning here is faulty? I don't understand why you assume the present embarrassing state of the eBook market will continue to have a choke-hold on the future thereof.
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