Are Programmers Ruining the Design of eBooks?

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?"

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Re:Yes!

[rickb928]

Whine all you want, but I was dead against the Ribbon until I had to use it.

Ribbon is functional. It works. It's NOT worse than menus from Office 2003 etc, it's genuinely different, and it just works.

I'm not a Microsoft shill, just calling out as it is. If you're still convinced the ribbon is so bad, you have the freedome to go back to an older version of TheGIMP.

And good riddance. Get off it. And get a name. Pussy.