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Originally Posted by rogue_ronin
Paying publishers for the terrible formatting that would satisfy you is ridiculous. It becomes paying people for a license to access, which is an aristocratic permission-culture ideal.
Add value and beauty and you are worth paying. And, frankly, admiring
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I'm paying for content, period. That's not creating an aristocratic permission-culture, it's providing compensation for the time and effort it took to produce and distribute the content. Those of us who love reading (as opposed to loving books) can't grasp this obsession with what to us is essentially packaging. Yes, the packaging serves a purpose and needs to be adequate, but all the waxing poetic about the space between letters and the claim that there is no way to have a pleasant reading experience with an epub evokes nausea and eye rolls.