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Re:Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation by mhandley on Monday December 15, 2014 @12:00PM (#8752954)
The preview of Moonstruck (the book in question) is also available through Amazon. Here are the first few hypens I can see:

"There could be no-one there, ..."

"...into a razor-filled muzzle ..."

"... sleep, muscular, brown-furred monster."

"... through her blood-soaked fur."

"... propelled backwards in mid-leap, ..."

"... the red-haired woman ..."

"... a tall, grey-haired man ..."

"mid-thirties"

"mother-in-law"

Not my style of fiction, but most of these don't offend my sense of grammar either. I think "mid-leap" is the only one that slightly jars.

Re:Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation by qznc on Monday December 15, 2014 @03:38PM (#8754295)
Beginners mistake. These are minus (-) not hyphen (‐) characters. </unicode-jibe>
Re:Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation by Houshalter on Monday December 15, 2014 @10:05PM (#8755685)
You are being downvoted but apparently that is what /r/books is claiming the reason is: https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/2pcnv2/amazon_remove...

I guess it causes issues with bad screen readers.

Re:Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation by adam-f on Monday December 15, 2014 @05:21PM (#8754823)
Beginner's mistake. "Beginners mistake" can only be used as the start of a sentence as in "Beginners mistake azure for blue."
Re:Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation by sparky_z on Monday December 15, 2014 @05:46PM (#8754934)
Some beginners mistake "Beginners mistake" as a phrase that can only be used at the start of a sentence. :)