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Originally Posted by Hitch
I have had to suppress my inner b***h, when I am now seeing all the crying about how the new LITB is "wrecking perfectly good books" over at Amazon. My little imaginary Schnauzer, Schadenfreudie, has been barking about those, naughty thing that she is. After all...that's now displaying what the books really look like--when the HTML isn't being suppressed by, tamped on, and conformed by, Amazon.  (Down, Schade! Down! Naughty doggie...) As, finally, how the book looks in the inside DOES get seen. |
I'm not seeing that at all. It's true that the absurd little dance that Look Inside did when the new version was introduced has at last gone away, so that it now opens at the first text page without skipping wildly through the cover, title page, etc. But of course the e-book has a cover, and the cover is not shown, which IMHO is a huge step backward.
And most books have this weirdness: they start AFTER the chapter head on that first text page. (I know that your books don't, but you aren't formatting most of Amazon's e-books.)
Here is the top Kindle best-seller this morning:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01CGBC7BK
You don't see the chapter title unless you scroll up. Perhaps it was, as you suggest, outsourced to a third-world country. But here's the funny part: it's from an Amazon imprint.
While I was writing this, another book moved to the top:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01DNJMO80/ and it too skips the chapter title.
And of course there's still a subset of books that open at the cover. So Amazon isn't even being consistent in its New Look.