I have quite a few books with a pretty cover, pictures, charts, pullquotes, etc.
LaTeX predates HTML by a decade and supports pictures, charts, quotes and far more, and doesn't force me as an author to make finicky decisions about presentation. I just write the content, and then set the document class to whatever the publisher wants.
Who reads books with no tables, graphs, images, or maps? ;)
My immediate thought was The Machinist's Handbook or a similar publication for chemistry that is pretty much all tables.
Have you any idea how much work goes into typesetting a book?
Presented 'like a book'. Its a blog, not a 400 page novel.