On the KDP forum yesterday, there was a learned declaration about LITB and "flows". I read it and didn't understand it. I read it again this morning and again didn't understand it. I asked for an explanation and got this in reply:
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The way the Look Inside appears depends on the specific display document flow assigned to your book. There are several flows (Zon tech support wouldn't tell me how many). Some open on the title page. Some open on the cover. Some try to guess where the beginning is, based on the contents, and open there. This makes good sense, since we have a service where .e.g. graphic novels share space with textbooks, poetry, experimental literature and literary classics. No single display flow could possibly work for all these.
Among other things, the document flows differ as to the line spacing and paragraph spacing. Very often, especially if your book is laid out in some unusual manner, the rules-based AI the Zon uses to pick the correct display flow screws it up and guesses wrong. When that happens, an email to Zon support is normally sufficient to fix the problem of "my book is supposed to open in place X, but instead opens in place Y" or "my book looks fine in your kindle previewer, but the look inside is screwed up in the manner X, Y, Z".
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I am somewhat less befogged, but not much. David Foster Wallace gets Flow X while Danielle Steel gets Flow Y? Hitch gets Flow Z?
Huh.
Any illumination gratefully received!