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Originally Posted by rjnagle
Title page must have something more than a heading font. Also, the defaults don't especially seem well-suited for large devices 10-12 inch width.
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Most books that I have seen from the big publishers use an image for the title page so that it scales nicely to the screen size. This is a case where layout wins over user font size choice. This seems fine to me since it is a page that most readers skip over anyway.
Headings on the other hand are usually text specified in ems so that they scale with the reader's preferred font size without regard to the screen size. That works out well in most cases.
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Originally Posted by rjnagle
It would really be sad if Amazon is drifting further from supporting css in the epub3 standard. I never really saw the benefit/value of the KFX format. How is it helping readers? How is it helping publishers? I kind of got the impression that KFX is mainly for Amazon creation tools (though I see in Previewer that I could export my epub to kfx).
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Amazon has always maintained a sharp distinction between the open e-book formats that they accept from publishers and the closed proprietary formats that they pass on to customers.
The MOBI and KF8 delivery formats were both based on HTML standards that were current at the time. The content was wrapped in a proprietary container, but it turned out to be fairly easy to extract the original HTML.
With the newer KFX format they created a much more proprietary format with only loose connections to HTML. That, combined with the aggressive maintenance of DRM for KFX format, shows a commitment to keeping the customer side of Kindle e-books totally under their own control.