[Hitch]

TangoMike:

Apple's intake process is, as everyone here knows, FAR from perfect. If you got it past them, then good on you. I've had at least 3 kicked back, from books that were made and uploaded over a year ago, recently, so I am naturally feeling a bit vexed about it. Apple's Q&A is not, FYI, necessarily limited to the Transport process; they will go through live titles and yank them down, which is what happened with the 3 books we got back recently, that had been live for months.

Two of them weren't even mine (but did belong to a client of mine from whom I had done "proper" ePUBs); but he'd wanted to save money, and didn't go through an Aggregator, and went through Smashwords instead, using the Word file with an inline TOC. Those are the books that got kicked back to ME (which I didn't much appreciate, as Apple keeps track of those things).

So, seriously: if I were you, leave it. Get a copy ready that doesn't have an inline TOC for if/when you get caught, and then Transport the correct one. Given that you got it Transported w/o issues, I'd not mess with it.

Good luck! My post wasn't meant as a "scolding;" I was merely adding my thoughts on the ncx versus inline-TOC thing. In my experience, the inline TOC tends to be popular with writer-pubs who don't have actual devices, and therefore don't have the experience of using the far-easier method of getting around the book--I mean, it's easier to tap "TOC" on a NookColor, or a KindleFire, or K-2, or even iPad iBooks, than it is to page forward or back to the Chapter Head to click the link-back, if you think of it that way. ;-)

HTH,
Hitch