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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Aug 23, 2018 6:41:54 GMT
This type of thing happens when you watch old kindle videos, but it got me wondering. Did it used to be a requirement to place the cover inside your book and then upload it separately for the outside? I can remember books in the past having two covers. I think I accidentally did that once when I uploaded a D2D book to KDP.
Do any of you include two covers? I don’t think most of the books I read do that, but now for some reason I’m feeling paranoid that I’ve been doing it wrong all these years. 🐩
Also word has this super nifty glow feature that paint doesn’t have. One day, when I’m feeling brave I’ll learn gimp. Or maybe canva?
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Post by davidvandyke on Aug 23, 2018 18:28:33 GMT
My formatting service (Liber Writer) places the cover inside the book when it's formatted, and by placing an anchor with the word "start" in it at the cover, the ebook always opens to the cover first, then goes on to the title page afterward--whereas on a standard KDP book without a trick like this, it tends to open on the title page, I believe, which can make the reader miss everything before it.
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Aug 23, 2018 19:38:12 GMT
My formatting service (Liber Writer) places the cover inside the book when it's formatted, and by placing an anchor with the word "start" in it at the cover, the ebook always opens to the cover first, then goes on to the title page afterward--whereas on a standard KDP book without a trick like this, it tends to open on the title page, I believe, which can make the reader miss everything before it. Ooh, interesting and cool trick. Thanks for sharing. Now it makes more sense why some peeps would do two covers.  |
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Post by EllieL on Aug 24, 2018 0:25:48 GMT
A long while ago (I mean EONS) the only way to get the cover to show up in your reader list of your device was to put the cover into the book file. For books formatted around the original DTP time, you may still see them, with the 2 covers as you do now. Thankfully, technology has evolved and that's not necessary anymore, but I remember formatting ebooks with the cover inside the file.
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Post by possiblyderanged on Aug 26, 2018 23:23:55 GMT
Yes, when I first started (back in 2011!), you had to have the cover inside the file, and upload a separate cover. I believe the one inside was to be smaller and the other the better quality/size.
Man, how things change.
David, I believe books will start on Chapter One (or possibly a prologue), rather than the title page. That's what always happens to me. I read on my old Fire now, but it was the same with the Kindle Keyboard. One of these days, I'm going to get updated devices. Maybe.
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