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Originally Posted by eyestrain
It might be a good idea, but I'm fairly positive now that it has nothing to do with the publishers.
I stumbled upon this thread:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8709
in which it states that Sony use an affiliate company to do the conversion. They charge for the service, quite a lot as it goes.
To my mind this makes Sony wholly culpable, as they contract those who make the conversion. |
That thread is discussing what's needed for
independent authors to get their books in Connect -- i.e. what you or I would have to do if we wrote a book and wanted to get it into the store. I'm relatively sure that the likes of Simon & Schuster go through an entirely different approach.
The main reason for requiring the conversion service for indies seems to be to make sure that they get some of the copy-editing services that they're missing by not going through a full-up publisher. And, personally, I don't think that $200 is all that much for a full copy-editing.
Anyway, that whole discussion of those two (and several other) points has already taken place in the thread you referenced, so I won't replicate it here.
But my point here is that Sony's requiring use of the service for indies looks to me like more of an evidence for due diligence in getting quality texts than one for them being sloppy -- if they didn't care at all what sort of crap came through Connect, they'd just sell 'as is' any file that anyone e-mailed to them. I'm not saying they're doing all they might, I have no way of knowing that, just that this isn't really an indication that they're not.