Hi, This is the third book that I am trying to publish on Amazon. I didn’t have this problem with previous books.
I compile and upload to Kindle previewer and my toc comes before the front cover.
I have tried so many ways but the only time toc appears in the correct place it has no html links.
Can anyone help me please - am I doind something wrong?
Thank you
For Kindle, you should have the checkbox disabled, in the Cover page tab, to Add HTML Cover Page. That is only for backwards compatibility with older devices that won’t show the book’s official cover image in the page flow. For those that do (like Kindles in all recent and distant memory), you’ll actually end up with two cover pages.
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Thank you but I don’t understand the answer. My front cover is fine, the problem is that in the previewer, the contents come before the front cover. I had no problems with two previous books and can’t think what I have done any differently? Than you.
I do not know how to achieve that result, even deliberately (in the Windows version especially, which gives no control over where the ToC is placed, but with Kindle it always puts the cover image first, it’s not a real “page”), but there must be some way.
What happens if you open the .epub in a tool like Sigil, and check these aspects of its structure:
- Examine the Text folder list in the left sidebar, you should not see a “cover.xhtml” file.
- Double-click the ‘content.opf’ file in the left sidebar, and look for
<spine ...>. This describes the order of content in your book, using the available elements. You should not see a cover section referenced here, only ‘contents’ and typically a bunch of ‘body’ files with numbers (the chapters).
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