[SensualPoet]

I love typography; I used to be part of the profession. But e-books simply don't have typography so i can let that go.

My most consistent experience has been Kindle books (I have Kobo, Smashwords, Fictionwise commercial titles in my library as well). A few basics really help: justification; no margins; paragraph indents; no extra space between paragraphs; section indicators where applicable ( * * * * will do); page breaks at each chapter; a clickable table of contents; a proper book-like cover; and in publication data. On the whole, Kindle delivers the above and, on the whole, others do so sporadically. Smashwords seems especially bad turning a book into two long chapters broken in the middle of a chapter.

The other thing is unnecessary typos from "real" publishers. I am reading Rex Stout's Three Doors to Death right now, from Random House, and some of the typos leave me really puzzled trying to figure them out. I get that they were scanned and OCRed but I don't get why the final text, and the scan, are not compared by hand and corrected. It could even be outsourced off-shore; I can't imagine it would add more than $200 or so to the ebook production which is easily amortized over any realistic sales demand.