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Originally Posted by Notjohn
IMHO there's a real value in an html TOC at the front, though not of course if it consists only of One, Two, En... Some Daniel Silva books have fifty or sixty numbered chapter titles, so the html TOC is utterly useless.
I wouldn't put the dedication at the front, either. Mostly I do without. If I'm reprinting an old book, I put it at the top of the copyright page, at the back. (I link to the copyright page in the TOC.) For my own more recent work, I do it as narrative in the Notes & Sources section, or a From the Author page at the back.
And yes, no half-title, Also by the Author at the back, no foreword or prologue or introduction (that material either worked into Chapter One or banished to the back).
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As for the HTML ToC, I don't think it's useful in an ePub if it doesn't bring anything to it that you cannot get from the NCX ToC.
The dedication is something I 100% disagree with. A lot of people skip the copyright page and thus there's a good change the dedication will never get read. The dedication should be in the front before the book starts. Also, most of what's behind the end of the book won't get read because once the book is read, most people are done. So anything you want read should be before the end of the book.
I think a 1/2 title is worthless. Also by can go in the back because if someone wants to read it it will get read and those who do not want to read it can easily skip it. The forward, prologue, or introduction shoud all be at the front before chapter 1.
The one thing I think is 100% useless is that page (or pages) of review blurbs). I already have the eBook. So that is just a complete waste.