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Originally Posted by Mike L
When the sample is stuffed with useless front matter (acknowledgements, "about the author", "praise for", etc), that is often within the author's control (in the case of self-published books) or the publisher's control (in other cases). Simply put some or all of that stuff at the back of the book.
Mike
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The "praise for" stuff is meant to convince browsers to buy the book, so including it in the sample makes sense from the publisher's point of view. Personally, I would prefer if that section was completely left out since I never read it, but the publishers seem to think that it's useful. I wonder if there are many book-buying rubes out there who fall for that malarkey?