End of book - adding promotion

[stephensw]

Is inclusion to the Premium Catalog an automated analysis or does a person do it? Why I ask is, #4 most common error in the Style Guide is mixing paragraph types. My book is consistent (block paragraph), but I added at the bottom excerpts from another book (indented paragraph). I’m wondering if an automated process would reject it, where a person would see the distinction and approve it.

[Ted]

If I was working for a company and part of the training included the list of most common errors to look for when vetting, then I'd reject any ebook that didn't follow the guidelines even though the rejected part was about another ebook or self-promotion blurb, etc.

I would do that so the reader of the ebook had consistency of style throughout, and it was my job to reject mixed paragraph types.

As the Style Guide is just that, a guide, I would expect Smashwords management would instruct vetting employees that nothing is written in stone and there has to be no exceptions to the guide.

If your ebook is automatically rejected then just use the Support system to explain the situation; that only a promotional blurb at end of your ebook has different paragraph style.

I would suspect that computer vetting code looks for errors such as the most common errors and flags them automatically, as Smashwords receives 2,000 - 4,000+ ebooks uploaded a day.

Whether or not computer flagged ebooks are automatically passed onward to a human for continue vetting is beyond my knowledge.