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I know nothing about publisher or amazon workflow, where the boundaries are, or whether the boundaries can shift.
Beside manipulating page numbers, Amazon also make changes to the location where books open for the first time and often removes fonts embedded by the publisher. Conversion to KFX format makes extensive formatting changes. There may be other changes made that I am unaware of.

When something goes wrong it is often hard to tell whether it is the publisher's fault or Amazon's.

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(Often the roman numeral page id elements are in the raw book HTML, but not in the amazon delivered APNX.)
It may be that the publisher labeled those pages in the HTML content but failed to include them in the pagelist. Or Amazon may have removed them for some unknown reason. I don't know of any way to tell.

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But in my very tiny sampling the incidence of glitches and outright SNAFU is very high. That's annoying, but the good news is that is possible for individuals to make the fix themselves.
Amazon's processing of books has some strange anomalies. I suspect that bugs in their handling of page numbers have gone unnoticed and unfixed because no one has been paying close attention to those details and it works well enough for them.
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