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Originally Posted by NormB
Yes an excuse can be true but is generally thought of as something the person or party had the capability of changing or avoiding if they had wanted.
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And that's the
real question, isn't it? Are these things that Sony controls? Does it control the way other folks make their PDF files? Does it control the way PDF works? Does it control the actual creation of the books that are in the ConnStore?
It seems to me that the answers to the two PDF questions are pretty clearly 'no.' Others may have differing opinions, of course.
The last item is perhaps less clear -- logically they should have at least some
influence there. I do seem to recall (I wasn't taking notes so....) an off-hand remark from one of the Sony folks who was at the
Texas Book Festival last October to the effect that they were trying to get their 'book' suppliers to bump the font sizes up to their satisfaction, and some minor grumblings about typos and such, and having a bit of difficulty getting those addressed. Of course, I think these were Sony marketing folks at the Festival, so salt to taste.
At the same time, though, if I buy a book at, say Barnes & Noble and find a bunch of typos on every page, I don't really consider B&N responsible for that, because they didn't publish the book, they're just selling it. Again, in my opinion, it seems that Sony is more in the role of retailer here than publisher. More Barnes & Noble than say, Random House, or
Rosetta Books. As such, I think it's reasonable to expect them to complain to their suppliers (just like I'd expect B&N to let a pub know that the books they printed were badly proofed), but not to actually
fix the text, just like I wouldn't realistically expect B&N to fix typos in their texts -- it's simply a matter of neither being set up to do that job.
Most of that, of course, is just my opinion, built mostly off of the bits of information I mentioned and what seems logical to me. So take that salted to taste too.
