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Originally Posted by JSWolf
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.
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Well, Amazon is nothing if not hide-bound by statistcs and data, seriously. If the Zon tells you, for example, that 90% of their users flip right past the front matter and go directly to Chapter 1, I think you can take that to the bank. I really do. They are addicted to that user data.
I suspect that they simply discovered something--who knows, something that SW knew or could have known, if they'd looked
back in the day--that told them something that would just
confirm what Amazon has built an entire empire learning and to which it caters--immediate self-gratification.
People B Lazy. People want what they want, when they want it, and not before or
after.
So, they have no interest in reading front matter. They don't. It slays my writers,
trust me. The agonies of the defeat of front matter, trust me. ("What do you mean, they don't REAAAAAD it?"), but I think if Amazon saw any signs of life, around the front- or back-matter, they'd be delighted to allow people to read. I do.
[shrug]
Although it frustrates me, from a tech perspective (as that's my wheelhouse here), I can't blame Amazon for making it customizable for their readers. It's like the damned Burger King song, "have it your way, have it your way...".
I also think the whole "can't forcibly override the fonts on a PPW family device thing?_-is a bug. I don't think that they intended that, not one iota, but...I seriously doubt that they'll ever admit that. I KNOW that they never intended that 50% thing (the "if an image is 50-51% of the width of the screen, the PPW, et al, will blow it up to 100%") bug) to be real. That was a bl**dy BUG.
Hitch