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Originally Posted by crich70
This is the same Amazon that designed the KDP platform so that such manipulation could be managed isn't it? And aren't they the ones who insist on the TOC being in the back so that you have to go to the end of the book to find where you want to go in a non-fiction book or a collection of short stories, which then counts the book as having been read cover to cover on the KDP platform? From what I've read they are also the same Amazon who went after innocent writers who accidentally were in violation of their guidelines by having their TOC in the front of the book file. Maybe they should clean house before they attack others.
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As the others have told you, that "TOC in the back" thing is a STRICT no-no, and has been since the advent of time, pretty much. It used to be an accident--Calibre-built MOBIs sliding through with the TOC at the back of the book, but then, during the beginning of KENP, people did it deliberately to game the system.
The TOC "rule" has been in place since AT LEAST 2012. I have all the Kindle Publishing Guidelines, back through the beginning of 2012, and it's stated there, as well, although differently than it is today; it said:
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All Kindle books should have both logical and HTML TOCs. Users expect to see an HTML TOC when paging through a book from the beginning, while the logical table of contents is an additional way for users to navigate books.--from the Amazon Kindle Publishing Guidelines, 2012.3
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I don't know what you've been reading, but no: Amazon has NEVER gone after a single author for having their TOC where it is supposed to be. I can tell you that they have absolutely forced authors to move their TOC to the front of the book, even where no nefariousness was meant. (We are commercial formatters, and we've done ~3500 eBooks, so in this, I know whereof I speak.)
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