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Originally Posted by kacir
The question is, for a given e-book sold by Amazon or other vendor, how many times it will be read on a latest generation 300dpi e-ink, how many times it will be read on a cheapest e-ink reader, how many times it will be read on a 'retina' quality LCD or OLED display and finally, how many of those will be read on a cheap phone or an obsolete tablet with 640x480 screen?
Even 300dpi e-ink might be not enough to render fine sherifs in good enough details. This is why Amazon started to use Caecilia - a slab serif font. So that you can have your cake and eat it too.
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Caecelia made good sense when ereaders did not have good resolutions. With higher resolutions, they do offer two good serif fonts - Palatino and Baskerville. More choice is always good. One can always fall back to the slab serif if the serifs on the book are not displayed satisfactorily. One cannot however use the same serifs as the physical book if the publisher does not embed them in the ebook at all.
Publishers have the option of individually tailoring their product even more. It's a shame that they generally do not do so.