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Old 04-28-2018, 12:59 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by Hitch View Post
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My shop has done 3700+ eBooks. (yeah, that number boggles my brain, too.) I've given up arguing with people that accessibility is more important than (most) typography. What happens is a given author insists that the layout and typography (typically, font-switching and size-switching) are too important to the story to be sacrificed...and because of that (and because of what MOBI does with line-heights), we end up with the client insisting that the book be done in fixed-layout--which we do. So, now the book is reader-unfriendly, and onerous to read, but, bygod, the typography is preserved! Hallelujah, praise Jesus and pass the ammo.

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Hitch
Guarantees that to me the story is not worth my time.

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