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Old 08-16-2022, 10:14 AM   #16
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Originally Posted by salty-horse View Post
Since the ePub and AZW3 have the same commented fonts, I'm thinking maybe they couldn't include them in the ebooks, maybe due to rights issues...?
That is likely. Also adding them would bloat the size of the book and is unnecessary since most people prefer to choose their own reading font anyway.

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Originally Posted by salty-horse View Post
Maybe the monospace font is a later addition, when they noticed a problem with differentiating the computer text with regular text (which sometimes appear together in the same line). So they added the monospace style to the KFX and the ePub, but not to the AZW3...? Does Amazon's publishing system lets you edit these two formats separately?
There is no way that the publisher could do that. All of the formats are created at the same time from the same source file. Amazon needs the content of each Kindle format to be synchronized with the others so that things like user annotations will work across devices that use different formats.

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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
Here is the CSS from the ePub version with a few changes.
After seeing Jon's version of the original CSS, I believe that this book fell afoul of a feature of Amazon's publishing process intended to prevent publishers from overriding the customer's font choice. It looks like they put font-family properties in the style definitions of all of the various paragraph types used in the book. That is against Amazon's rules.

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