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Originally Posted by JSWolf
All Amazon needed to do was to default to Publisher font if there is a font embedded and respect an embedded font via <span> for KF8. That would have solved the problem. But no, Amazon wants to do it all wrong and screw things up for both the eBook creator and the reader.
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Sure, and what do people do? They switch off all those fancy author/publisher defined fonts because they want to read the text.
A big factor with fonts, especially the use of fancy fonts, is how people read. A fancy font works great when your reader reads by voicing each word by breaking it into syllables. It doesn't work if your reader reads whole words or groups of words through pattern recognition. In the latter case, fancy fonts slow down the reader, so it'll probably be switched off.
For the author, if fancy fonts are essential for your book, then IMO you're better off using PDF - which nearly all reading devices and printers can render correctly.