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Originally Posted by Nahgem
We have been assuming that the ebooks will need to incorporate various fonts and illustrations, but that may not be the case. Having pulled my UK editions of the novels off the shelf and thumbed through them again, they don't have any of those things, and the US editions might be in the minority in having them.
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1) They have fonts. If it's printed, it has at least one font. They have no notable, "special" font arrangements--but they have a font, and line spacing, and chapter headings. EPub can imitate these; mobi can't. No idea how important those are to Rowling/the publishers.
2) The hardcovers I've seen also have headers with little stars in them. Can't do that with ePub or Mobi. (I don't think it's necessary--but again, I dunno what's important to the publishers.)
3) The hardcovers I've seen have illustrations; are they missing from the UK editions?
4) The "extra" books--Quidditch Through the Ages, Monstrous whatever-it-was, and Tales of Beedle the Bard--are image-heavy. No news yet on whether ebook editions for those will exist. (I'd assume so, although they might do ePub for the others & PDF for the picture-heavy books.)