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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
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.)
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I suppose I was too vague. I know they've got a basic body/header font combination because, well, that's kind of obvious. What I meant was the UK novels don't have a separate individual handwriting font for each character signature, Dumbledore and Hagrid's notes to Harry, etc. They also don't have the stars around chapter headings and page numbers or any illustrations at all. My point was that since there already are English editions without all that extra formatting, it might not be something they'll need/want to try and accommodate in the ebooks, so the argument over which file formats can and can't properly replicate those effects might end up being irrelevant.
That still leaves Quidditch, Fantastic Beasts and Beedle to deal with, but the main novels don't have to be a big deal.