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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I'm talking about people letting things like font-choices, or indent-sizes, hyphenation/justification choices trip them up. I simply can't relate. Clearly delineated paragraphs and a minimum of syntactical and/or spelling errors are all I require to give great ideas and memorable stories/characters safe passage to my brain.
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Almost no publisher in the past 20 years would settle for that low of a bar for a hardback print book, so why do we have to settle for an ebook?
Font choice is the #1 thing that I feel that publishers screw up. They shouldn't actually choose a body font, as the reader software allows the user to pick that, but if they do, they need to choose with the same care they did for print books. That doesn't mean the same font...differences in the rendering device means different criteria in picking a font.
Instead, most pick the first free-to-distribute font they can find (usually Charis) and end it. It would be different if fonts were expensive, but they aren't. There are probably over 100K great fonts that license for less than $50 per ebook title they are embedded in, and still a large number for less than $20 per title.
As for the rest of your list, again, just use the same care and thought you used when creating the print book.