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Well, there were multiple cases of KU publishers getting emails from Amazon saying their Pages Read Thing couldn't be displayed just yet because the SRL wasn't set, but hang in there, it would be.
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Seems sooooooooooooo bizarre.
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Goodness, does this mean that endnotes could be a problem?
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Precisely one of my first questions. And special offers, legitimate ones. Or--how about ANY link from the <gasp> TOC? If someone clicks the "About the Author" link, before they leap in and read the body content, will the Zon come unglued? It's positively vexatious to think about.
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The Disneyesque scene (I think of Snow White and the Seven Differently Heightened People) seems to be fairly common among new Kindle publishers.
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Indeed. It's a merry one for me, I admit it. I rather LIKE to think about such images. It cheers me immensely, particularly when I compare it with my lot, who rather than the vertically-challenged, more greatly resemble the
Pirate Radio crew, from the (wondrous) movie of the same name. Or, maybe...maybe
Misfits of Science crossed with
Pirate Radio. Yes, that's them. Or, rather, us.
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I mentioned that my books often start in the middle of the TOC, and you said:
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Indeed. I believe I did say something almost exactly like that, my little
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So I SHOULDN'T be uploading epubs to the KDP? Arghhhh!
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Don't worry about it. Chances are, 99.99% of all readers are, by now, perfectly accustomed to weird SRL phenomena, and behave accordingly. You are publishing your own books, for yourself, nj. You aren't answerable to clients who've paid good money and want the book to jump through hoops, leap tall reviewers with a single bound and be more powerful than a $100K ad campaign. You have only to please yourself, and your readers, no? Then, hell, why sweat it?