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Originally Posted by Psymon
I understand that -- I swear, all I do around here is just keep repeating myself, and nobody gets it.
When I say that for me it's the visual, artistic aspect of that particular font, people keep coming at me telling me that the font is "wrong", that the way I'm doing it is "wrong", and that, here, go try this font instead -- despite the fact that using that other font virtually nullifies the entire point of what I'm trying to accomplish here (which clearly nobody gets).
And even when I specifically say -- on multiple occasions -- that "sales" and "making money" aren't the most important thing to me, everyone keeps coming back to me to tell me how lame iBooks is, what a small market they have, and if I would only do things differently I'd have so much more sales and make so much more money.
Money, money, money. Y'all want me to destroy my own art, and sell my own soul, all for money, money, money. You do have a point about getting ebook-making right (and on my next project that won't be an issue at all for me), but you're all completely wrong, you've totally missed the point of LIVING, if you think that getting ebook-making "right" -- that is, putting sales and winning popularity contests above all else -- is more important than getting LIFE right.
Rosebud, folks, rosebud. :/
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Oh, no, we get it. I know you think that we mere hacks don't get it, but we do. My company's made more than 2,000 books, for everyone from people you've never heard of to publishing superstars to Pulitzer winners, and you think I haven't heard the "artistic vision" speech before? I wish I had $10 for every time I've heard it.
What you don't get is that--aside from
me--nobody here is really talking to you about commerciality. If you want to give it away on iBooks, hey, knock yourself out. You're not paying me, so if you go broke chasing your artistic vision, it's no skin off my nose.
The rest of the gang here are about doing books
correctly, not so you can make more money--half of the wankers here are socialist dogs or communist pigs (in my humble, but affectionate opinion)--but
so that the book can be read more widely. THAT is why they are complaining to you.
Almost everyone here donates time at PG or DP, or here,
making books to share the "wealth" of knowledge, or proofreading books for that same purpose, me included. So, the "choir" that you are preaching to here isn't talking to you about MONEY. They are talking to you about the inability of your book to be distributed on other readers. Since, obviously, you're a Jobbleshead (what it looks like is more important than whether or not it really functions), you don't understand that there are millions upon millions of other reading devices--not even counting Amazon--that
aren't i-anythings. Your much-loved book won't work on those. Your artistic vision will
never been seen on those. So, please stop this silliness about it being some crass attitude about MONEY wreaking havoc with your creation, it's not about MONEY and it never has been.
THAT is what
these poor geek bastards have been trying to tell you.
I'm done with this thread and this discussion. I hear enough of this all day long, quite frankly, suffering through it for my pittance; I certainly don't need to "listen" to it or hear it in my downtime. I spent weeks of my life, this past month, trying to explain to someone that "seven spaces, EXACTLY," doesn't exist in an ebook, with proportionally-spaced fonts, to match his "poetry's
artistic vision," after
months of him telling us we'd made "mistakes" on his manuscript (because, after all, who can understand LINE WRAPPING when a line runs out of space? Why doesn't the text just magi-shrink so the line doesn't break?) so really, enough of that
.
Hitch