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Originally Posted by bookman156
That's a good idea, then it becomes like a half title that happens to be hyperlinked. That seems more sensible.
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Originally Posted by bookman156
It's not going very far in the book but it can be used to jump over the full title, press name, and copyright pages to, perhaps, the epigraph page just before the book contents proper.
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Yep, and like Hitch describes in that 2015 topic... Amazon already does this.
They noticed that 99.9% of people would just click right by the frontmatter and "jump to Chapter 1" to begin reading.
... So now Amazon opens ebooks right to the "first page".
You can always click backwards if you want to, but the vast majority of people don't even look at the covers, title page, copyright pages, etc.
Way back in pre-2014(?), you had to mark a "Text" semantic in Sigil and Amazon would use that as your "Start" location in Kindles... but nowadays, it's all done through Amazon heuristics.
Many big-name publishers tried to shove the TOC at the very end of the book to:
- try to get more of their book sampled in the "Look Inside"
- "hide" the TOC from their readers (especially in Fiction books)
but Amazon really cracked down on that too (because of scammers). (For more info on that, see that Reddit comment + 2017 article I linked above.)
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Originally Posted by bookman156
I'll experiment, see how these ideas look in practice.
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