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Originally Posted by Hitch
There are exceedingly few customers out there that want to pay an eBook formatter to go through their book and conform all the quotation marks, etc., around italicization, bold, and the like.
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I can understand not wanting to pay, but it takes me about 10 minutes to do that fix to an ePub. That's got to be a drop in the bucket compared to the rest of the time spent getting a book ready for sale.
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Originally Posted by graycyn
What I hate is when I get something like bunk house and bunkhouse in the same book. Or cowbarn, cow barn, and cow-barn! Or, heaven help me, goodby, goodbye, and good-bye!
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I think some of that might be that the word had a soft hyphen at some time during the editing process. This would be visible in the source code, but not the rendered. Unless you had a good editor, it would look like regular hyphen. Then, the soft hyphens got globally removed, and you ended up with the compound word. And, the few time a real hyphen was used, you get the hyphenated version.
The book I'm reading right now had "missingpersons bureau" in the text. This is what made me guess that it was a hyphen/soft-hyphen issue, because that is not a valid compound word.