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Originally Posted by Hitch
Alan:
The change, in modern bookmaking is, of course, the TOC. For dog's years, most fiction books didn't have Tables of Content, certainly not in genre fiction. But now, they do, and print is doing the same thing, to conform to the ebooks.
Normally, the prologue would appear before the bastard title (half-title) page, if one exists. And after any TOC. Now, you have to be SURE it's after the TOC, so as not to run afoul of the PW (Publishing Workflow). I have any number of clients that don't want it there; they want it BEFORE the TOC (no matter what I say about historical placement or anything else), and that is a major damned headache.
OT, kinda: Anyone else here want to bitch-slap auto-corrects, etc., that PERSIST on insisting that "prologue" is PROLOG?????? GRRRRRRRRRRRRR.
Hitch
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As to your OT, I'd rather bitch-slap whoever decided that Kindle eBooks should not open at the cover.
But as the the prologue, why would anyone want it in front of the ToC? It belongs in front of the first chapter. At least in ePub, you can do away with the internal ToC and still have a ToC. A good example of this is Star Trek eBooks. S&S have stopped putting in an internal ToC in the ePub.