From: "Jim O'Donnell" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2014 14:59:54 -0400 A distinguished Georgetown colleague, Charles King, has just published *Midnight at the Pera Palace*, a fine book about the making of modern Istanbul, for a trade audience. Both the Apple and Kindle versions of the book turn out to be unable to render Turkish names (that use diacritical marks not found in Anglo-Franco-Germano-Italian publishing) in a consistent font -- you glance down a screen and the words with those marks jump out because the critical letter is the wrong size or bolded or a different font. It's ugly and conveys an undertone of cultural insensitivity (we can't be bothered to represent these words carefully). There are many issues with quality of e-books, but this one has the smell of simple cheapness: converting the book to an e-format without care or attention and giving the reader an ugly experience. Jim O'Donnell