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Originally Posted by slowsmile
The "special treatment" concerns the special services that Amazon provides for the Big Five publishers at a price that no indie publisher can afford or is allowed to use. This means that, for the Big Five, their books will always be formatted, presented and sold according to a higher quality standard than other publishers that don't qualify for their "special treatment". And, before you ask, I don't know what the special services are because they're never broadcast on the Web and seems to be a well-kept Kindle secret -- you could try asking Hitch about that side of it.
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Uhhhh. Crapdoodle. Okay, I can't really talk about this, but I can absolutely, positively say that there's no "special treatment" in terms of books being formatted to some "higher standard." That is
absopositively not correct.
There aren't any magic tools or magic coders. Topaz is a thing of a bygone era. Now, you get
EXACTLY the same books that everybody else does,
if you happen to send your book to the larger formatters, world-wide. Amazon
does have an approved list of companies that they use for book formatting--that's also public knowledge. But ALL of those companies are available for hire by John Doe.
The big difference is the coding that
can fly by when you're FTPing files, rather than uploading them through the KDP interface. You can have embedded video, audio, that sort of thing.
But if you have your basic non-fiction 'How to" book of some ilk, it's not going to be any differently coded, or have different features, than any other eBook coming out of that same...
area of formatters.
That's really all I can say and that's
mostly public knowledge, if you've spent any time discussing stuff with Amazon (both Seattle and India).
Hitch