Are Programmers Ruining the Design of eBooks? 470
An anonymous reader writes "The Toronto Review of Books claims that the majority of digital books are awful because major publishers are handing over the design work to programmers, not artists and editors. This results in the 'typographical horrors' typical of so many eBooks, and hundreds of 'lackluster' iPad adaptations. 'Programmers are suddenly being given free reign to design books,' the article laments. 'Most publishers don't care about the iPad or eBooks very much... which may be an aesthetic rejection based on the publisher's historical reverence for the printed page.' Don't we deserve better eBooks?"
Re:It's not just ebooks (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Yes! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Amusing (Score:5, Funny)
I find it amusing that the article linked for this story has some atrocious typography of its own.
Really? What I see is a single sentence in a black serifed font on a white page. No ads; nothing. It is beautiful:
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Re:Yes! (Score:5, Funny)
One of the remaining options like getting a UI designer to design your UI.
Mmm, Unity and Gnome 3.
Letting 'UI designers' design UIs has been a freaking disaster, because they always seem to pick shiny over usability.
This seems perilous to me... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Yes! (Score:5, Funny)
But Nintendo somehow managed to make it socially acceptable to announce that you're going home to play with your Wii.
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