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Old 08-11-2024, 11:54 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by cfrizz View Post
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.
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.


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