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Originally Posted by user_none
There is no publically avaliable information that maps places in an ebook to a page in a print edition. The only sources right now are purchased books. If you buy the book with this info there is no need to generate an APNX (or NCX) yourself to approximate.
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Hi. I'm new here and a newbie when it comes to formatting ebooks. Sorry for resurrecting an old thread, but I have a particular interest in it.
There are cases where there is a need to generate references to page numbers in a print edition, and I am working on such a case now, for Kindle Direct Publishing. The book concerned is non-fiction -- hence the desirability of being able to cite it with page references. It is out of print, but there is likely to be a renewed interest in it when a new book that is now in preparation is published (in print and ebook form).
I can live without a publicly available map of pagination information. I am prepared to manually identify page starts in the text by comparing with the out-of-print paper version. Time-consuming maybe, but it would be worth it to me. Is there any way of inserting that information into an APNX file? Of course, if Amazon would tell us how to do it, that would be preferable, but they haven't seen fit to ...
Any help greatly appreciated.