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Originally Posted by Notjohn
There is much that is comical in the Guidelines, but this one is especially rich, worrying about "a customer paging through the book from the beginning," when Amazon does its level best to PREVENT customers from doing that. The average reader never sees the cover when he opens the book, never sees the TOC or title page, and never sees the perhaps vital information in the prologue etc.
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Ummmm... I regularly see the cover page in preview...if the book has one (I keep getting some books with just a plain graphic which is really annoying)...it may require me to scroll up if the book has a "start here" tag embedded...and, of course, if those particular pages are specifically hidden for a preview there's nothing I can do about that. I always assumed there was a step in the submission process where the author/publisher could select which pages to display?? I would be moderately shocked to learn that Amazon willy-nilly hid pages.