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Originally Posted by wallcraft
This is good news. However, the "tasters" of The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollop and of King of Swords by Nick Stone are each about 2MB because they both include Charis SIL as an embedded font. If all the Penguin ePubs are going to do we will have multiple copies of this font taking up room on our memory cards.
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I agree. The ability to include fonts might be a godsend for most publishers (they can create an experience closer to their p-books) but I'm not sure that it's always such a good idea from a pure customer perspective.
While embedded fonts can provide a better looking presentation, they shouldn't be used for the main text, but rather just for a few elements where they might be useful. One of the benefit with e-books, is that the user can potentially select both the font and the size of the font based on their tastes, not strictly on what the publisher decided.