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Originally Posted by Hitch
Methinks, as you have never seen a book we've done, you have NO idea what you are talking about, vis-a-vis the quality, artisanal or otherwise, of our work. And frankly, you are coming rather close to making me rather angry about it.
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I don't know why anything I said should make you angry, Hitch, I didn't criticize the work you do, or the way you do it, because as
I said (and not just you) I've never actually seen a book that you've published. I'd like to, actually, if you can point me to an example that you think is representative.
The only point that I made is that what you and I each do are rather different things. I've only published a couple of books so far, and am currently working on my third (although I've got one or two others half-done, but put aside for now), but I've spent months on each of them, putting in lots of time into the artistic side of things (and LOTS of other "behind-the-scenes" niceties that people don't see all that overtly, but do "experience" nevertheless). If I were to charge a client for the work that I do, it would cost them thousands and thousands of dollars to have their book published by me -- and I don't think people would be willing to pay that much.
That does NOT mean that your books look "lousy" or something -- on the contrary, I'm sure they look really good -- but we're talking about two entirely different things here. Every time I've been trying to do something particularly artistic, and want to get it to work cross-device/app, either I find a solution that works (and go with it) or discover that there isn't a solution and I don't, and yet you always seem to pipe in with your admonition that people shouldn't waste their time trying to do things that don't/won't work.
I don't get offended by your continually trying to burst my bubble, because I'm trying to incorporate something nifty (and get it to work all-around), so I don't know why you should be upset when all I do is reflect back that you're working in an area of epublishing that simply has different time/money constraints than what I'm trying to do.
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HOWEVER, that being said, I try to ensure that our books work across the board. that they work on EVERY PLATFORM. I don't have the luxury to indulge myself in artistic flights of fancy that will only work on one goddamned reader.
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And the things that I do do -- or at least
end up doing -- do work on "every platform". I don't know why you have to demean everything that I post a query about here in these forums (re "artistic flights of fancy") in that way all the time.
Maybe I should be mad at you, Hitch, but I'm not. I just find it, well, weird. I
didn't insult your work, and you're mad, and you continually
do insult my work, and I'm not.
Go figure.
