Thread: Books Starting at Chapter 1
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Old 08-22-2022, 12:13 PM   #25
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Originally Posted by Quoth View Post
Also some people confuse Prologue (not skipable) with Preface (sometimes best skipped esp. if book of dead person). So we recommend that "Prologue" be called "Chapter 1" or whatever.

But Amazon are crazy not opening the book at the start, or at least just after the cover. It's so arrogant!
amazon has plenty of arrogance, but in this case I suspect they did a study years ago and concluded that most people just wanted an ebook to open for the first time at the beginning of the first chapter. That probably got implemented without considering subtleties like prologues. Well, I guess arrogance does play a part, since it is technically possible for the author/publisher to set the initial opening position and amazon imposes its own.
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