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mjm01:
I don't know what ebooks you have, but I've never seen the "cover" on an ebook TOC, and we've never put it on any ebook TOC in the more than 2K books we've made.
I find having books open on the cover exceedingly annoying, as a reader. The cover has already served its purpose; it lured me to the book, I looked at the LITB for the book and the description, read blurbs, if any, and bought it. If I want to see it again, every reader has a "go to cover" option. I don't need to see it again. I don't know if they've changed this, but for years, the Dresden Files ebooks were distributed coverless.
{shrug}. I'm glad you're happy, but be prepared for the very real possibility that this may NOT work (mobi or iBooks) once it's been through the publishing workflow ("PW") at the retailers. Amazon consistently and routinely changes the SRL (start reading location) to the first page past the TOC, and iBooks sets it at the TOC. The PW is not the upload process; it's what happens AFTER you've uploaded the book, BEFORE it appears for sale, while it's being further processed by Amazon/iBooks (during the "review" period). You may get lucky--but don't count on it, and in the interim, if you had a better place in the book for the TEXT attribute, now it's already been used for the cover, which won't work after Amazon/iBooks changes it.
Hitch
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