
“Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling’s new book for adults, The Casual Vacancy, was published today to great fanfare and decidedly mixed reviews. Some ebook readers are holding on off on purchasing the digital edition because it’s priced at $17.99 (here’s why), but Kindle e-reader owners who did buy it right away are in for a disappointment: It’s basically unreadable, unless you have a magnifying glass. Twitter user Alan Jacobs was among the first to notice the problem: “Someone throughly screwed up the font in the Kindle ed. of The Casual Vanancy: you can choose only minuscule or enormous.” Read the full story at Paid Content.