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Originally Posted by MovieBird
Ah, but that is where people differ. I'm sure I'm not the only one, although I may be a standard deviation or two out, that does not believe it is worth paying for some of these formatting issues.
Subtracting information out? That involves me putting effort into the item, which in turn lowers the price I am willing to pay for it, because time is money. If it doesn't have the features you want, don't buy it. If it has too many crappy features that I don't want, I won't buy it either. There will be a common ground reached, although not as fast as many would wish.
It's not necessarily terrible formatting to omit images, and I'm not sure why you believe so. Hell, I didn't even know what "kerning" was until I read this forum, even after reading a few novels on a Sony eReader. It obviously didn't affect my enjoyment of the story. And the story is the most important part of a book, which many seem to forget.
As far as that accountant crack and "culture"? It kind of goes back to that old joke about a cup. Is the cup half full or half empty? To an engineer, that cup is twice as large as it needs to be. Function is always more important than form, unless you're Apple.
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Why does someone who professes near-complete lack of knowledge about the finer points of bookmaking want to dictate how books (even if only eBooks) should be made?
Why is it that so many people on this board would find the notion ridiculous in any other field, but still fancy themselves insightful experts in how publishers should make books? Is there a reason beyond the "Gee-golly-gosh, everything is relative/everyone is different!" mantra?
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