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Sorry, Amoroso, I more or less hi-jacked your thread for my moan, so it behoves me to try and get it back on track.
Unfortunately, I haven't downloaded many books from Smashwords. The ones I believe I have downloaded from there are: "The Kinshield Legacy" and "The Venom of Vipers" both by K C May, and "The Year We Finally Solved Everything" by Rudolf Kerkhoven.
All three of these appear to be well-formatted. Rudolf Kerkhoven does not appear to be a big fan of chapters, but I can't fault Smashwords for that. It appears that Smashwords copies the cover image twice when creating epubs, since the cover appeared twice on "The Venom of Vipers", "The Year We Finally Solved Everythinb" and "Prince on a Red Dragon". Strangely it does not appear to have been copied on "The Kinshield Legacy".
It seems that I might have been unlucky that the meat-grinder farted when it produced my book. Three faults I have discovered: no page break before a new chapter (all three of the other authors' books have this); no chapter title, e.g. Chapter 1 (K C May's books both have this, Kerkhoven's has sections with titles) and the running together of the last word before an italic section and the first word in italics, thus: "The word for hello isnihao and thanks isxiexie." I didn't notice this problem in any of the other authors' books, but I would have, I'm sure.
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