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Originally Posted by Krazykiwi
Consider:
- An ebook that consists of nothing but links to websites has been tried before. Amazon removes them when they're reported, they're considered scams.
- An ebook where every page has some content, but also links to a website, might skate past Amazon's rules, but would still likely have readers considering it a scam, if they had to pay for the book.
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That's good to know. I was thinking if including a note that people who wanted to learn more about NATURAL HISTORY of a particular symbol could refer to a table in the appendix. For example, there might be a table listing all the state birds, which each species linked to a web page.
If Amazon wouldn't even allow that, then maybe I could just include a single link to a similar table on my website, with links to additional information.
I wonder if Apple is as anal about links as Amazon?
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Originally Posted by Krazykiwi
What is the actual use case for this?
How many people actually need a reference for all state symbols, vs the number who are looking up a particular one that they may have need of for just that minute? An ebook reference for all the state symbols is vanishingly useful for the second group, but the first group cannot be very large - who are they?
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Teachers, parents, librarians, anyone with a special interest in symbols. The interest would actually appear to be increasing, judging by the number of websites focusing on symbols.
As for the paucity of books, that could be due largely to a lack of imagination. The existing references are unbelievably shallow and poorly designed; they really missed the mark.
I could probably list half a dozen major improvements that could easily be made. And I don't have to sell 10,000 books or even a thousand to be successful. Like I said, I'm working on a series, and there is in fact considerable interest in particular categories of symbols, such as flags, flowers, etc. Every year, new legislation is promoted in various states that increases awareness of and interest in symbols.
But I'm going off on a tangent. My projects aren't all related to symbols. I also write about geography, wildlife biology and political science/theory/philosophy.
Time will tell which is most popular, but there is a lot of interest in these topics in general.