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Originally Posted by Little.Egret
Sharon Lee blogs
http://rolanni.livejournal.com/1073416.html
a. The Kindle edition of omnibus The Crystal Variation, by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, including the novels Crystal Soldier, Crystal Dragon, and Balance of Trade -- has been taken off-sale by Amazon pending correction of "serious quality issues." These issues are "misspellings." Amazon forwarded the list of 144 instances of misspelled words to Baen, which forwarded it to us. More than a dozen of those "misspelled" words are "cermacrete." We also have "ISBN" identified as a "misspelled" word. Also, cantra, kais, qwint, Iloheen, aetherium, autoshout -- you get the idea. Steve and I have each made a pass down the list and have so far identified three Actual Misspelled Words, and one that I need to research, but believe to be a spacing problem. The process from here goes like this: We tell Baen which words are Actually Misspelled. A Baen editor will fix those errors. The Baen Ebook Team will then recompile the omnibus and shuffle it into its various formats, including forwarding a "clean copy" to Amazon. Amazon will then, at some point, put the book back on sale.
https://www.amazon.com/Crystal-Varia...dp/B00APA1L4E/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Crystal-Var...dp/B00APA1L4E/
If you would like to purchase an electronic copy of The Crystal Variation in the immediate future, your best choice of vendor would be Baen Ebooks, which offers the book for sale in All Formats Known to Man or Clutch. Here's the link.
http://www.baen.com/the-crystal-variation.html
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I don't really consider this recent snafu that much of a black eye on the new Public Warning policy put in place in February. Mistakes are going to happen. I still think it will accomplish more good than harm.
There have been horror stories of midlisters having their books pulled from Amazon's store because of unwarranted "complaints" about formatting long before this new policy was put in place. The only thing "new" here are the warnings. The new warning policy did not
create the problem Lee and Miller had with this book. The potential for things like this happening were ALWAYS there.
I remember several years ago when one bestselling author had a book pulled from Amazon's store simply because he ended a chapter in an "experimental" way. It was a first-person POV by a character who was trying to defuse an explosive device. The chapter ended in mid-sentence (mid-word, actually). People were sending the physical books back because they believed there was a large chunk of text missing. The ebook kept getting pulled because new readers were calling in and complaining of missing text. He (the author) swore he'd never try anything like that again.
I wasn't fooled, of course. Not sure why it was so hard for people to figure out that the device exploded; thus interrupting the first-person narrative mid-word.
My point is: this too shall pass. Lee & Miller's troubles will end. They should take it as a sign that Liaden fans are getting more and more neophytes to try the books.
