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Amazon "Suppresses" Book With Too Many Hyphens

Posted by samzenpus on from the what-until-they-get-a-load-of-this dept.

An anonymous reader writes Author Graeme Reynolds found his novel withdrawn from Amazon because of excessive use of hyphens. He received an email from Amazon about his werewolf novel, High Moor 2: Moonstruck, because a reader had complained that there were too many hyphens. "When they ran an automated spell check against the manuscript they found that over 100 words in the 90,000-word novel contained that dreaded little line," he says. "This, apparently 'significantly impacts the readability of your book' and, as a result, 'We have suppressed the book because of the combined impact to customers.'"

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  1. If readability was a crime... by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...there would be no Slashdot summaries.

  2. About time Amazon cracked down on this by 91degrees · · Score: 5, Funny

    I also think it's about time they take down down on Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro" from their mp3 store until someone can do something about the number of notes.

  3. Re:Why hyphenation in an e-text? by lgw · · Score: 5, Funny

    There is a unicode character known as a soft hyphen.

    Hey, this is Slashdot: we don't know about Unicode and we like it that way!

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  4. Re:from the what-until-they-get-a-load-of-this dep by BarbaraHudson · · Score: 5, Funny

    I imagine #they'd totally $freak at a @book about &perl.

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