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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>
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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.

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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."
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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. :)
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