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Why The Kindle Hasn’t Changed Books, and Other Slightly Ridiculous Questions

21 December, 201715 September, 2020Amazon, content creation, eBook Formatting, Kindle (platform)12 Comments

Over on Wired David Piece asks the same slightly ridiculous question outside pundits ask every so often: why Amazon has failed to change books as an...

Xkcd, Kerning, Full-Width Justification, Kerning, and Light Sabers

4 May, 20166 May, 2016eBook Formatting, Font, humor14 Comments

Between its strips on kerning, dates, and diacritics, the webcomic xkcd has shown itself to be adept at poking fun at bad formatting. Today the webcomic turned its attention to...

Amazon Now Freaking Out Over TOC Location in Kindle eBooks?

11 March, 201612 June, 2017eBook Formatting, Kindle (platform)20 Comments

Every so often Amazon decides to crack down on violations of some rule in its voluminous ToS or Kindle publishing guidelines, or even just because readers...

Yesterday’s News, and Tomorrow’s: Badly-Formatted Kindle eBooks Will (Continue to) Display an Error Message

21 January, 201621 January, 2016Amazon, eBook Formatting13 Comments

An old story cropped up yesterday as “new” news when it may be anything but. According to one of my competitors: Starting February 3, 2016 Amazon...

The Kindle’s New Typography is Hard to Pin Down, But It Is Pretty

31 May, 20155 May, 2017eBook Formatting, Formats, Kindle19 Comments

Several days ago Amazon released a new version of the Kindle app for iPad and iPhone which added a new font (Bookerly), hyphenation, and all around...

Is Nonfiction eBook Formatting Still Terrible on Tablets?

10 November, 201411 May, 2017eBook Formatting, Formats22 Comments

The latest edition of UI guru Jakob Nielsen’s newsletter showed up in my inbox this morning, and it focuses on a topic near and dear to my heart: ebook...

Video: Why eBook Text Layout is Terrible

16 October, 201411 May, 2017e-Reading Hardware, eBook Formatting20 Comments

Ever wonder why the ebook you’re reading on a Kindle rarely looks as nice as the edition? Computerphile sat down with Professor Steven Bagley of the...

J K Rowling’s New eBook Looks Like $18 of Crap on the Nook and Kindle

27 September, 201216 November, 2019eBook Formatting11 Comments

Publishers like to justify their ridiculous ebook prices by claiming to offer great value for the price. I’m sure that’s what Hachette was thinking when they...