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message 1: by Jay (new)

Jay Greenstein (jaygreenstein) | 279 comments In the past, Amazon has permitted us to indent the paragraphs of our blurbs via what are called non-breaking spaces—a way to get around the Internet's custom of deleting all leading spaces.

And, lots of people have taken advantage of that. In fact, the Kindlepreneur site will take a space-indented blurb convert it to the proper format, and ready it for pasting into Kindle's blurb window.

But that's changed. Their system now seems to accept the nbsp code as it always has, but on your book's display page the leading spaces of every paragraph are stripped out. And that includes books that you've released in the past.

So, if you've been using indented blurb paragraphs on Kindle, you need to change your blurb to have a white space between paragraphs, instead.


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Anna Faversham (annafaversham) | 560 comments Thank you, Jay. I'll check.


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