Books are often typeset by competent people (or at least people who are enough to have opinions on typesetting) while the web is usually the result of middle ma

Books are often typeset by competent people (or at least people who are enough to have opinions on typesetting) while the web is usually the result of middle management and marketing seeing you as the dumb thing keeping some metric too low. Magazines are their own thing although typically this does apply to the actual articles themselves; Someone who knows what they're doing lays them out.