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Originally Posted by RbnJrg
Hi Hicht;
I really don't know if once you upload a .epub to be published in Kindle Direct Publishing, the conversion process set the SRL AFTER the TOC (in fact, that thing makes sense). But if you build the book for private use by using Kindlegen, then you can set the SRL before the TOC.
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The issue I was referring to in my post (
"...assuming you are discussing distribution through Amazon") is all about the post-PW book, that goes up for sale. I wasn't talking about setting it for private use. If someone is going to convert from an ePUB, simply setting the semantics/meta to "text" for the location desired will also work (in KindleGen/KP or at the KDP). However, again:
the PW does and will change SRL's that will be for sale on the KDP, despite the best professional practices in setting it. As the OP included an email that he had from Amazon, my natural assumption was that we were not indeed discussing "private use," but a problem he'd encountered in putting the book on sale.
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Of course, if the book is going to be sold, the only way of knowing if the SRL can be before the TOC is to watch the book after the publisher puts the book on sale. And here I can't give you an answer  As I said before, in that case, it makes sense that the SRL is after the TOC (and in my opinion, it should be so in all books). But Patrice asked how to set the SRL and I pointed the general procedure. If the book is for private use, then the procedure will be enough for him
Best regards
Rubén
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Well, it sounds easy enough, but it is not always so. We had a client that had an extremely important introductory "note" in his book--in fact, I believe I've posted here about it at some length--which included clues for a (real life) treasure hunt. We set the SRL to that Note/Intro. We tested the book extensively, of course; but post-upload, once the book was on sale, the SRL was absolutely altered. I had a month-long argument with Amazon about it which resulted not in Amazon changing the SRL, but instead, with us moving the frontmatter about so that the SRL was
after the TOC, not before. This is the reason that I mentioned the entire matter.
Hitch