Don't have the Kindle treat Company, Inc. as first/last name

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I'm working on a Kindle eBook for a company. They want the author field to display as "Company, Inc." This works fine in Mobipocket, but when I open the file in Kindle for PC, it diplays as "Inc. Company". It appears that Kindle interprets the comma as a separator between last and first name.

If I remove the comma, it displays (more) correctly as "Company Inc.", but I would prefer to keep the comma if possible. Anyone have advice on how to make that happen?

Does however your building/compiling the azw/mobi give you access to the .opf meta-data file? If so, what's its — Alex K., Apr 05 '11 at 11:10
I have full access to modify the .opf file. Currently, that field is: Company, Inc. — Michael Snoyman, Apr 05 '11 at 14:18

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 05 '11 at 14:27

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You could try adding a file-as in the hope that that will be used as the machine sort value, leaving the actual display content untouched.

<dc:creator opf:file-as="Company, Inc" opf:role="aut">
Company, Inc
</dc:creator>

answered Apr 05 '11 at 14:27

Alex K.

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Thanks for the idea, but unfortunately it didn't work. Still showing up as "Inc. Company". – Michael Snoyman Apr 05 '11 at 18:16

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 05 '11 at 12:43

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It looks like there is no way to solve this in Kindle. For this case, the client agreed to simply remove the comma (e.g., Company Inc.).

answered May 05 '11 at 12:43

Michael Snoyman

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Don't have the Kindle treat Company, Inc. as first/last name

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