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Old 07-28-2009, 06:13 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by Abecedary View Post
I wanted to mention that Tahoma can't legally be included in an epub for redistribution.
Many font foundaries haven't really come to terms with ebooks yet. I just asked Monotype how much a licence for including a roman and italic of one of their fonts in an ebook would be.

£1500. For a five year licence.

To be fair, this fee covers up to five fonts, and in up to five different ebooks. I suppose if you were publishing lots of popular ebooks, £60/book/year wouldn't be completely out of the question. But it still seems very high to me.

And they did also say they're "in the process of reviewing" their ebook strategy.
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