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Originally Posted by slowsmile
When you ask why Enhanced Typesetting has been introduced and so fiercely pushed for Amazon ebooks then the answer has to be "To create higher quality ebook features and internals."
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No, it's to push the KFX which has DRM even when the publisher has asked for DRM free.
And Amazon told me that epub2 was the best format to upload. The Docx isn't as good. All our epub2 ebooks have the so called Enhanced Typesetting, if you download a KFX version, which is just client side rendering that could be added to azw/FK8 rendering on any Kindle that supports KFX.
It's quite a subtle rendering difference to KF8/Azw and nothing to do with internals, the same things they don't like for KFX/Enhanced Typesetting are bad without it.
This too is fantasy:
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With the latest release of Kindle Create, you can now upload your Kindle Create file to KDP as both an eBook and paperback of any trim size, creating both digital and print versions of your book simultaneously!
Routine but challenging paperback tasks like margins, page numbers, left/right side page layouts, widow/orphan treatment, and table of contents creation are also handled automatically.
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Part of a recent email from Amazon.
Depending on font size and judgement/experience and print quality a paper edition of a book may want different fonts to an ebook.
Also you may want to swap some spaces for half spaces. Perhaps between digits and units or at en dashs, though some style guides don't space en dashes used for asides.
Likely you also want to change various spacings of different paragraph styles.You may also want different front and rear matter.
A paper book also needs a different cover design.
Images will be higher resolution and an absolute size for paper, but a percent of screen width for ebooks.
Tables may be done differently.
You can use real small caps, if you think you must (not assured on ebooks).
You have true WYSIWYG of a PDF proof and absolute fixed layout on paper. Not on real ebooks.
It seems like a bonkers idea to me, but then I what do I know?
(P.S. Doing DTP for paper since 1986 and electronic documents since 1979, multimedia since 1994 and real ebooks before the Kindle existed. I'd admit sometimes I'm inept and clueless).