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Originally Posted by Hitch
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]
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People don't read the stuff before chapter 1 because the book starts with chapter 1. They might actually read the stuff before chapter 1 if it was actually presented on screen. I do read some if the stuff in front of chapter 1 if it's something to be read.
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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...".
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What I think would be a good idea is that when there are embedded fonts that the users choice of the body font be used and the embedded fonts be displayed. But the embedded fonts can be overridden but not by default. That way people would read the book as they want and when the embedded fonts show up, if they are a bother, they can be overridden.
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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
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This image bug should be fixed. It's a stupid bug.