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Originally Posted by tompe
I do not think that is the business. If the business was managing information they would have looked very different.
The business it to sell books and earn money.
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Clearly making money is the aim of the business (as is the case for every business), but, given that what they are selling is essentially intellectual property (i.e. the words written by the authors), then any failure to look after that data is simply unprofessional.
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Originally Posted by tompe
They have there old streamlined procedures that works very well for printing and selling books. Why should the change something that works to something that is more expensive?
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Because if DaleDe's comments are accurate then their businesses and future business opportunities are seriously compromised by their lack of control over the fundamental currency of their field.
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Originally Posted by tompe
I think you underestimate the time it takes to implement a new system and the extra time it take for people to use it. And to use it correctly. And to use it when a disk crash just before a deadline and so on.
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I don't believe I underestimate anything - I have some experience in this field. I'm just talking about simple competence in data management - the sort of thing every business has to come to terms with if it wants to survive. I'll bet the finance and accountancy departments of these same publishers have more control over their data than was described by DaleDe! (They'd better, otherwise they're in some trouble).
/JB