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Originally Posted by Notjohn
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.
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I'm with this as well. I do own a Kindle, which is a secondary reader, but when I read on it, it's an annoyance that the books open elsewhere than the cover.
It's not the cover that is a problem so much as there is other content that gets skipped over as well.
When books open at chapter 1, you've missed the title page, dedication, and sometimes other stuff!
Worse, *until* I page back, I don't *know* what I might have missed that I would prefer to read prior to starting a book.
I've never understood why Amazon has taken this tack.
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