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Originally Posted by karunaji
I don't think that it was her who decided every detail in the layout of her pbooks. Most likely, it was all done by typesetting professionals who prepared several nicely looking dummies and asked her to choose which one she prefers.
Mobi might not support every feature of epub but it is not a reason to reject mobi format because the differences are not very significant.
E-readers require change of typesetting philosophy. There is no use to trying duplicate every feature of print typography. Font embedding could be a nice feature but it is optional because the power of an ereader is to choose the fonts of your liking. A publisher no longer can force such things on readers and they have to invent a different approach to provide the best reading experience. For example, I would like to see a possibility to provide automatic footnotes. It should not be too difficult to provide a footer or a running head whenever the text requires it.
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The idea is to give the reader the same sort of experience you have when reading the nicely formatted pBooks. ePub comes closest and Mobi just fails miserably.
This isn't a case of don't bother to make your eBook look nice because somebody may use settings to override the fonts. Make the ePub as nice as possible and let the reader decide what's the best thing for the reader. In fact, if the ePub was laid out like the pBook and had all the fonts, I would not want to change the fonts. Probably the margins, but not the fonts.