ebook layout options are fine, I guess, for standard texts. If you want to do anything fancy, tho, get ready for a headache.

 

I have a headache.

 

ebooks are not ready for what I do. Take a text like this:

and your ebook formatting process goes: wtf??? No way! Just who do you think you are, throwing me this fancy stuff?

You can’t explain to them: look, these are two protagonists, one per column, talking to each other. He’s on the left. She’s to the right. Smaller font is what she thinks but doesn’t say aloud. Underlining underlines where her thoughts overlap. Get it?

 

You can’t explain all that. You can only comply:

You’ve given your name as the author, but the minute you push that ‘publish’ button, you know it’s not your book. Not the one you really wrote. It’s theirs.

 

They say paperbacks could become a thing of the past. Not if I have my way.