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Originally Posted by seanwhat
Or they could charge an extra $80 for a higher end kindle model which, among other premium features, includes extra font sets.
This is 2014 and they can't sort out simple software features like margins, fonts, hyphenation etc. even on their 'premium' model? Why? It's not like the software is in it's infancy, they're clearly aware of these issues, they're just choosing not to bother.
They're just... behind. Like a lot of people, I was hoping they'd have ironed these things in the new models, but instead they've been working on other software features which, although very good, aren't the simple things people were asking for.
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I don't get the font thing either. I had a story in Greek (with Greek characters) up for sale for probably 3 years. Hmm. No, it was more like 5 years. Anyway, the short story displayed fine from what I was told (I don't read Greek). I went through a lot of hassle to make sure it looked okay. Now it isn't as though I sold oodles of the story, but a few folks bought it and it was a nice boutique item to have.
At some point a few months ago, Amazon noticed it was in Greek (It clearly. CLEARLY stated so in the TITLE). So they pulled it for "unsupported characters." There is bound to be font upon font that displays just fine and doesn't even require tweaking on their part (including the Greek alphabet). So why NOT offer more fonts? It makes no sense at all. None.