Thread: How to get KF8 to open at the cover?
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Old 06-12-2017, 07:45 PM   #34
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Originally Posted by AlanHK View Post
I don't know what kind of prologue would be appropriate before the TOC myself. Unless this is some attempt to to an ebook version of the cold open.
??? Lots of them do. Particularly for non-fic.


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How Kafkaesque. Unwritten yet firmly applied rules you have to deduce.
Well, they've actually sort of spoken of it, now:

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fROM THE KPG, Section 5.3, Guide items: "Publishers do not need to define a start reading location because Amazon does this during the upload process."
Granted, it's unnamed, but...at least they sorta, kinda, maybe, mention it. :-)

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(About TOCs at the back of the book)...

That's a relief. I never did it myself, as I do printed books from doc to press and then do ebooks after, mirroring the book layout as much as sensible.

I do recall seeing advocacy for TOC at back in some blogs a while ago.
Well, hell...in writers'/authors' forums, all over the Net, you can find advocacy for ANYTHING. I fully expect that one of these days, some yahoo will post something like "take one eBook formatter, sacrifice him on the 15th day after the moon is full, while chanting 'Bestseller' in a nice, melodious screaming voice, and you'll be in the NYT's Bestseller list within 7 days," and those of us in the biz will have to run for our lives.

First, some ppl didn't want to use up their LITB, with it; then some folks just didn't LIKE them, whine-whine-whine, and then, some of the get-rich-quick'ers realized that with the KENP, if they put the TOC at the back of the book, people would click there...and they'd get credit for the ENTIRE book being read and completed. For the "pages read" calculation, for $$$, right?

Amazon would pay out (which they did, mind you), even for worthless books. One guy put up NINETEEN THOUSAND books, all scraped from Google translate, and he made a small fortune, because people would download the books, click to go to the TOC--which was after 500-some-odd pages full of crap, literal, incoherent crap--and he was making a small fortune doing it. Took Amazon quite a while to find and remove all of those books. Some folks will do ANYTHING to scam a buck.

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