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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Well, you have less options.
A friend does DTP for a major publisher, and has expressed an interest in getting into ebook production. I told her "You will have limitations based on the device. If the book specification from the designer, for example, says that body copy is '11pt Monotype Bembo on 12', that won't be what the reader will display - it doesn't have Monotype Bembo as an installed font, and doesn't have that fine a control over line spacing." She understood.
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Actually, you do have that sort of control using ePub with ADE. You want Monotype Bembo, you embed it. You want a specific line spacing, you specify it in the CSS. Really, it's a no brainer. You just tell Amazon, since you do not support what we need, you cannot have our book.