Production Challenges of Creating an E-Book vs. a Printed Book

Electronic books have been hailed as the future and the perfection of the codex format, because of their ease of production, distribution, and infinite perfect replication. Yet this Babbage has found that not to be the case, even though he has worked with e-books for decades across many formats.

The production of a book has changed drastically in all the particulars of how words and images move from the mind through intermediaries onto a page. A printed book remains an object of the 1500s, with all the advantages of a process perfected across the centuries. E-books will get there. Just not