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Originally Posted by Hitch
Or, if you do that, you can end up with the dreaded "double cover" after your client uploads at the KDP, when the cover that s/he uploads in Step 5 is embedded in the book file--no matter what you do.
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FWIW, the same thing happens in an epub if I label the included cover as "text" so the book will open there. It does indeed open there, at the included cover (or at least it did in my test run), but in front of that was the product image, making a second cover.
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Originally Posted by Hitch
When Kindlegen runs, it takes the first image it finds in the file, and assumes it's the cover.
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I loved to put a frontispiece in my non-fiction books. But of course it got suppressed in the conversion process! So I had to move the frontispiece to in front of Chapter One, so it wasn't a frontispiece at all!
And I read a thread this morning on the KDP forums where Serious authors were arguing that if one wishes to create "an enduring work of art," one wouldn't change anything because it's to appear in digital format. The changes in what I write, and how I write it, and especially how I present it, have been huge.