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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I have seen some eBooks that have no content because by the time you get past all the crap at the front, you have no content.
You have the cover page, title page, page or two of review quotes, page or two of the author's works. dedication, frontmatter, ToC, & copyright (not in that order). So you end up with no content or very little content.
I do think that since Kindles have an easily accessible link to the ToC that the ToC be placed at the end of the book.
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Wolfie, my curmudgeonly friend:
I am loath to tell you that at this VERY moment--as you speak and breathe, and as I type--I am in a life-or-death (okay, well...contentious) struggle with The Zon over
this. very. thing.
I had a client who had her book REMOVED from sale. This is a first for us, for a "formatting" type of thing. She has had these guarantee pages, that tell a reader if they find a typo, and report it to them, they get the price of the book refunded. Plus, she has a short TOC (name of book, Start Reading, and, wait for it: Full TOC, which goes to a full TOC at the back of the book), and Amazon says....ixnay. To be clear, the guarantee page and the small TOC page (we call it the Wee TOC internally) at the
front of the book. Basically replacing the full-length TOC.
Now, firstly, bloody James Patterson does his books this way (short TOC). Secondly, although this is the style she uses throughout the 30+ books that her imprint publishes,
this particular Volume is a BOXED SET. How they want the bloody TOC done
differently than what we did, considering:
boxed set?...I don't know.
I spent an hour+ yesterday constructing a big long brief and argument on the topic, and submitted it last night, saying: let my people free. Oh, wait, wrong job:
put my client's book back up on sale, dudes. So far, ....crickets....
{sigh}.
Hitch