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Originally Posted by scveteran
You start off with bad formatting and include things that basically would allow every single book to be returned after reading. There is no way that a company can survive doing that. I challenge you to find a decent length book that doesn't have some sort of missing punctuation at some point. Then you can decide that you don't like the font???
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As HarryT mentioned, I don't mean "missing a period at the end of the chapter" (which sometimes happens with some OCR programs), but "all commas have been replaced with periods" or "no quotation marks at all" or "has question marks instead of curly quotes." Or some other major punctuation problem that makes the book unreadable for most readers.
Anything formatting problems that'd get a failing grade on a 10-year-old's schoolwork should be considered returnable.
Fonts--most ebooks are made with readable fonts; I've not seen any ebooks with ISBNs that had troublesome fonts. (Have seen homemade ones that were atrocious.) However, ebooks are growing, and I expect publishers to try all sorts of ways to make themselves stand out.
Some print books are made with hard-to-read (for me) fonts; either tiny and cramped, or too scripty, or thin and spidery. Most formats of ebook don't have enough font variety to have these problems, but with Topaz and some PDFs, it's possible to get an ebook with fonts that aren't readable. PDFs can be fixed (painfully, by file conversion, which isn't always possible without DRM removal), but Topaz can't.