Thread: Amazon 'suppresses' book with too many hyphens
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Old 12-22-2014, 02:23 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by drjenkins View Post
http://www.theguardian.com/books/boo...r-2-moonstruck

I can't help thinking that part of the story is missing here. Does anyone here think that Amazon would pull a 90,000 word book because of 100 properly hyphenated words? I suspect the actual notice from Amazon addressed a list of concerns and the author singled out the hyphen issue for his counter complaint.
There's a lot more to the story, yes. It turns out he was hard coding a minus sign in place of a hyphen.
http://the-digital-reader.com/2014/1...emicolon-next/
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