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Old 09-04-2014, 10:58 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by Anak View Post
I agree. Would "country of origin" play a part in this? Like American publishers automatically format for Kindle because these devices have the largest market penetration? And the epub version is derived from it?
I'm not sure if "country of origin" would have much of an effect. Quite a few publishers/authors see Amazon as being their biggest single bookseller regardless of country of origin.

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Slightly off topic (but layout related)
I asked Kobo (Netherlands) nicely if they could fix my problematic kepubs (you know the 'older books' with empty lines between p-tags, etc.) by simply reconverting or reprocessing these books to update the books to the latest "kobo code" modifications.

Their answer was: no.

While I've read here (and other forums too) that Kobo does fix these books in other countries where Kobo is active. Why isn't this standard policy for all countries?
I only asked Kobo about fixing a book once and got the same answer. With a little help from our favourite apprentice, I edited the book and remove the <expletive deleted> blank paragraphs between each paragraph. Not a item in the styling but a <p class="p2"><br class="c7" /></p> line inserted after each paragraph.

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David
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