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Originally Posted by JSWolf
My guess is because they don't want people getting a good look at some of the really awful covers you can get with some self-published books. My guess is that this could stop the reading of these books and if they are KU books, the author won't get paid.
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That could be. But you also miss things like well done illustrated title pages, frontispieces, maps, timelines and such. And there are nice covers out there too.
I suppose publishers can do workarounds, but how many actually do this?
The trouble is that if people go to straight to the 1st full page of text, they won't see any useful front matter material, they won't even know it exists, because they'll also have jumped over the TOC!
Which begs a different question, WHY, if Amazon is going to skip the reader over all the front matter anyway, does Amazon insist on having the TOC in the front of the book?
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