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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?"
That's why I always use Comic Sans :)
"more fast"? Sounds like an English major there.
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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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.
Isn't merely discussing this topic running the grave risk of having the ghost of Donald Knuth come from the future, heavy with unutterable wrath, and smite us all?
But Nintendo somehow managed to make it socially acceptable to announce that you're going home to play with your Wii.
Exactly. My son started using Linux at about 18 months, and did his first install a week after his 2nd birthday. Given that he didn't learn to read until just before he turned 3, I think it is safe to say that there is no 'command line problem'.