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Old 11-22-2016, 11:09 AM   #20
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Originally Posted by 4691mls View Post
I wonder if the publishers just copy all that stuff in from the print version. I can see why they put the blurbs in a paper book in case a potential customer is looking through it in a store before deciding to buy it, but with an ebook you don't even see the blurbs until you've already bought it.
Unless you're reading the sample, when a lot of front matter can mean little or nothing of the actual text. I don't see many blurbs in samples, but there have been times the sample ran out before the introduction did.
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