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Originally Posted by Hitch
Jon:
That's not the topic here--the testing, or lack thereof, of eInk, no-weight-added fonts.
And some 8,000 eBooks into this, let me just say, you can put notes, billet-doux, forget-me-nots, etc. in there from now until hell freezes over and 99% of the readers who buy them will a) never see the note and b) never read it. Anything in front-matter is almost ubiquitously ignored and never seen. That's just what has happened in a day and age when eBooks "typically" open to a given location.
People are, apparently, blithely disinterested in front matter.
Any concerns someone has about font weights, etc.--they can just test it themselves. That's their job as the publisher, any-damned-way.
Hitch
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Putting in a note about the embedded fonts is the only thing I can think of to do. Most are not going to try publisher font to see if there are any embedded fonts.
I think that if the eBook needs these embedded fonts, publish as ePub and forget the Kindle exists.
Amazon's way of doing things is really really stupid. The eBooks should always open at the cover and from there, the first page. Also, if there are any embedded fonts, publisher font should be on by default. That would solve a lot of problems.