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Originally Posted by canpolat
I, as the "publisher" can actually settle for that. And I suppose some of the readers will also accept it. But then there is the poets who want their poems to display just as they intend them to appear. I can understand them since poetry is -at times- visual as well ( Visual Poetry, Wikipedia).
That doesn't mean I will give up  |
That's easy-peasy. Then they can PAY FOR and you can create fixed-format. Them's the breaks.
Sorry if I sound inflexible, but what I've,
personally, been through with poetry over the past five years I would not wish on The Dursleys of Privet Drive (sorry--have been reading Potters for another thread around here somewhere on typos, or some bloody thing). There's something about poets' brains, particularly the "visual" ones, that just breaks this camel's back.
I tried, I did--but I learned the hard way that
that way lies madness. Now, if a poet wants a book "that looks EXACTLY like..." we quote them for fixed-format. For a while, I'd stopped accepting poetry even for quotation, not because the coding itself was hard (it's not...just tedious), but because the inevitable endless emails that came once the ePUB was produced just were not covered by pricing. Now I charge a LOT for Poetry, even if it's simple, and the earth for FF.
Period.
Hitch