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Originally Posted by cfrizz
If it's only on Amazon's page and not in the book itself...who cares. Amazon exists to make money; authors are there to sell their books and make money if it helps generate a sale then it's all good. Don't like it, don't look or buy the book.
This isn't rocket science or anything to get bent out of shape about.
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How does it help sales? The information is slightly down the page. It totally breaks the Kindle & paper Book stores.
It's extremely annoying. Especially when they also make it part of the filename for Downloads, including a ":", which is legal in Linux filenames, but not Windows. Makes backup on Linux fail.
There is even a place for the blurb just down the page.
It also makes Amazon's search even more broken.
Only one of a few annoying things about Kindle. Others are:
* No shopping basket
* difficult to get updated version
* "in your face" promotion of KU with actual price shown 2nd.
* "misleading" includes free Audible
* Search on title or Author in Kindle store is nearly useless
* Things that are not actually reflowable ebooks sold as Kindle
* Reviews from unrelated formats or different editions
* One edition each shown of ebook, paperback and hardback, even if there are more, and may not be from same publisher.
* Locked to a Marketplace that might not be your own currency or country (but only for Kindle, not DVDs, CDs, paper books etc). Kobo does that better.
This list is not complete.