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Originally Posted by msmith65
This is precisely the answer I needed at the top of the thread. Thank you.
I do understand the need by some more-advanced students to make themselves feel superior to newbies by criticizing them. That's a basic human weakness, amplified by our classroom model of education. I try hard to resist that temptation in my own field because, in the end, it doesn't really make me feel better, and it can hurt others' feelings.
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Superiority? No offense, but not 3 days ago you didn't know how to make a simple horizontal line in HTML, and you're
charging a client to make that book?
I'm sorry, but what you're doing contributes to the large number of bad experiences that authors have with so-called "conversion experts," which in turn, reflects on companies like mine, which actually do employ "experts." You've not known how to do some exceedingly fundamental things--like a simple horizontal line--yet you are charging someone money as a purported professional. In my company, people have to know what they're doing
before they get paid--they don't learn on the client's dime. If they don't know what they need to,
I pay them to learn, before they
ever work on a client book.
I get at least 3 books a week from clients who've been burned being someone's PAID guinea pig. What you're doing is wrong, period. If you want to be a paid converter, go convert about 50 Project Guttenberg books, contribute them to MR, and
then you'll know what you're doing. Charging some poor schmuck who doesn't know any better to learn on his nickel is not very ethical. I, for one, won't assist you further in what you're doing. I don't mind helping a fellow professional, or kicking around solutions--but I'm not "an advanced
student," I do this for a living. And I didn't charge until I'd done dozens of books--nor would I ever have done so.
Diap and Wolfie are right--you're asking US to do your work for you, so you can CHARGE someone. Sorry, but I'm done playing.
Hitch
(Who DOES know how to make ebooks that work)