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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
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.
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You are over-thinking this. Pottermore will release the books in various formats ( mobi, epub, and pdf.). Techie bloggers will generate kilobytes of discussion comparing and contrasting the differences in style and layout between the three formats.
Outside the techie bubble, hardly a soul will notice.
The legions of non-techie Potter fans will be so glad to be reading their beloved books in e-book format, they'll overlook any layout issues. Some techies will grouse that some illustrations in the ebooks differ or even fail according to which formats they are rendered in, but they will be largely ignored. And life will go on.