Thread: Promotional content added to the actual TITLE of a book
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Old 08-11-2024, 04:35 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by nabsltd View Post
Although it's not on the book cover, it is part of Amazon's metadata, so the download file has an insanely long name, and sometimes that full text appears on the Kindle, so you end up with stuff like the following as the title in the UI:


As you can see, it's not just lesser-known books/authors that get this treatment.
Hah! They do it with the titles/filenames/UI-display of award winning non-fiction as well.

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents became: Caste (Oprah's Book Club
and Wilminton's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy became Wilminton's Lie (WINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE): The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
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