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Originally Posted by stonetools
Since the folks running Pottermore care about the average consumer and not at all about techie format zealots, we can be sure that the Potter books will be available in various formats on the appointed day.
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I agree they care more about the average consumer than what ebook fanatics think is the "best format."
I suspect this means we'll see watermarked PDFs, locked against casual editing & printing, not multiple formats. That way, they can claim that "everyone gets to read the book the same way."
Mobi can't support the layouts in
The Tales of Beedle the Bard. Epub can, but only on those machines that have the right kind of CSS support, which I suspect is not many of them.
From Rowling's past comments, I expect she wants as much control as possible of people's reading experiences, and that includes fonts, art layouts, and page sizes. The fact that that approach is incompatible with e-readers hasn't clicked yet for her; she has a Kindle but hasn't realized that books on a Kindle look different from the same books on a different e-reader. And probably hasn't spent any time trying to read PDFs on the Kindle.