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Originally Posted by Hitch
How would you use a "dropdown" or SAAS, or whatever you have in mind, that would prevent someone from listing an author incorrectly? Or would not allow them to skip the meta? And if you had such a rigid system, how many self-pubs do you think would use it?
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That's demagogy, as any system is expected to give better results than what we have now: a text field.
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If these folks can't manage to upload a clean Word file to Smashwords
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Now you are getting inconsistent: first you tell about people who need special formatting and '400+ images', now you are telling about 'people uploading Word files'.
It does not matter whether they are using converters or ask third parties to format books for them: in any case results achieved by a specialized format will give better results than a badly made EPUB and still better results with a proper EPUB.
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how will you stop people from doing things like typing "xxxxxxx" for any of the text-based metadata?
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Why would they do that, again, when there is a convenient and understandable form to do that properly?