Don’t hyphenate your ebooks

Seriously. Readers will take care of spacing and line breaks. They may not do so gracefully, but don’t try to anticipate how they’ll reflow your text. If you do, this might happen:

Apparently Amazon had received a complaint from a reader about the fact that some of the words in the book were hyphenated. And 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. This, apparently ���significantly impacts the readability of our book��� and, as a result ���We have suppressed the book because of the combined impact to customers.���

So��� yeah. Don’t hyphenate.