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Originally Posted by HarryT
But why do you actually care, Jon? You don't own a Kindle, and don't read Kindle books. Is this just another one of your "let's bash Amazon" threads?
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My attitude is identical to Jon's, and I have been using the KDP/DTP since November 2007, the month it was opened to us. The only e-readers I own are a K3 Keyboard, a Fire 7, and a Paperwhite. (Oops, no, I do own a Nook, but it has been years since I used it.) I sell 80 percent of my ebooks through the Kindle platform, so I design them with the Kindle in mind. The only difference between what I upload to the KDP and to Draft2Digital and Google Play is that I take the cover out of the epub that goes to the KDP.
I want my books to open at the cover, and three-quarters of them do. I accomplish that by not specifying ANY SRL ("text" in Sigil-speak).
I like to chat up people on airplanes whom I see reading on a Kindle. At least half of them not only don't know the author of the book they're reading, but they don't even know its TITLE.
I want them to see my cover, and the title page, and the table of contents, at least once before they get to the goodies.