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Originally Posted by hobnail
I still feel like putting links in a book is a big mistake. I suspect that Amazon feels the same way and that's why they're so hard-nosed about making authors fix them.
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With all due respect, I think I can say with 99% assurance that they don't. When we had to undertake that tests that we had to pass, to become authorized vendors to Amazon itself, the test books were in languages that we didn't speak; they were each 300-400 pages, with images on pretty much every page plus x-reffed captioning, and
thousands of links (and again, internal links with cross-referencing as well). [nb: you're not allowed a SINGLE mistake on the books. One mistake="you're out." You get 72 hours to make all 3.]
If Amazon
doesn't like external links, they have a damn funny way of showing it--and, if they didn't,
why wouldn't they just tell the publishers getting these notices to remove the links, rather than all this goat-frackery around link archives?
Hitch