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Originally Posted by SteveK
Randy - I agree, and I did notify the publisher about the formatting problems. Of course, I haven't heard anything back and don't really expect to, but at least they're aware of the problem. Kobo has also indicated they will "work closely" with the publisher to try to resolve this problem.
SteveK
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I was thinking of this while reading
11/22/63 and I may have a reason why there is a problem. It might not be a problem with the actual eBook. If you were reading it with a Kobo reader, then you may have encountered the font embedding bug that Kobo (stupidly) refuses to fix even those it's been pointed out to them. The ePub of
11/22/63 uses a lot of embedded fonts. The bug with Kobo readers is that they have ADE setup to ignore font-family lines in the body style in the CSS. So the font uses as the main body font in
11/22/63 is not displaying. There could be a problem with the default font and italics.
If this is the case, then it's a flaw in Kobo readers and Kobo should fix this. But they won't since it's been an outstanding bug (font embedding) since the original reader.
Most ePub turn on the main body font for embedded fonts in the body CSS style. This is nothing unusual. For Kobo to ignore this is just wrong and can ruin the way the ePub is supposed to look.