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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Oooohh, time to rustle up some of my old tradpub ebooks and have some fun...
http://the-digital-reader.com/2016/0...error-message/
EDIT: JFTR, I read "good"ereader's story, and as I suspected he has a swelled head about it, seems to think it was in response to his article.
And of course he is reporting two pieces of news despite that the first piece is very old news indeed.
But kudos for catching the new first tier (before Nate, which is news too).
I know we all hate "good"ereader here, but.... Let it not be said that I don't give credit where credit is due. |
I asked him directly about his source, and he replied that it's Amazon, and quoted emails that Indy-pubs had already received, which state:
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Starting February 3, 2016 we will begin showing customers a warning message on the Amazon.com Kindle store detail pages of books that contain several validated quality issues. We will remove this message for a book as soon as we receive the fixed file from you and verify the corrections – typically within 2 business days.
We understand that even with the best quality controls,
defects sometimes make it through. That’s why we’ve limited this messaging to books with several issues. Books with more serious quality issues will continue to be suppressed from sale.
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We've already had two phone calls from people who had conversions done at another, now-out-of-business-converter of some note. I don't know what anyone else is doing, but we're implementing "Same Day Salvation" plans (for those with disasters) and "Same Week Salvation" (for those with nastygrams visible on the sales pages). {sigh}.
As a reader--I'm damned glad of it. It's about frakking time.
As a converter--I don't know whether to laugh or cry. I know--I KNOW--we'll get books back. We've seen some real doozies go through here. (Some of you may remember the paranoid schizophrenic fellow? That drove across two states to find us because we 'changed the wording of [his] book'? Insert delicate shudder here.) OTOH, it may be new work. Ya never know.
I'm also glad to see SOME emphasis on formatting, at long last. We've been the red-headed stepchild for far, far too long, IMHO.
Hitch