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Originally Posted by Notjohn
FWIW, my book published yesterday opens at the title page. I hope I never have to revise it. In my experience, if I touch it, the next version will open in the middle of the TOC.
Pace Amazon, this reader HATES having to page back to see if there is an essential prologue that the stupid software has skipped. It is one of the reasons that I prefer print editions to e-books in non-fiction, which is what I mostly read. (I've even seen prologues that the author has warned MUST be read in order to understand the book.) Not every author, nor even every publisher, has learned to banish the acknowledgements page to the back of the book. As recently as 1990 I had a battle with a university press on that very subject. I wanted them to go with the Notes & Sources; the editor insisted that they go up front. I lost, of course.
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I don't disagree with you-I was simply advising on the rationale on why the books open where they do. Nothing more.
Hitch