Thread: future-proof Fictionwise multiformat choice ?
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Old 10-23-2009, 11:17 AM   #27
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Originally Posted by bill_mchale View Post
I find this all amusing. In general, I think it is safe to say that 90% of the interest in ebooks revolves around novels. There are other types of ebooks of course, but by and large they are not the sorts of books we read on our kindles/sony's/cybooks.

I will say this, the rise of ebooks means that typsetting as it is currently understood will cease to be. Even in technical manuals and text books (where formatting probably does mean a great deal more than it does for fiction) the flexibility of being able to view the book on different screen sizes is just too important to pass up.
Perhaps. And if that comes to pass, eBooks will never replace paper books, being clear and irredeemable failures at serving the same set of utterly basic needs that paper books can easily satisfy.

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