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Originally Posted by Anais9000
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Instead, I'm trying to work my way in through DP so I can make the suggestion that
a) books not be submitted so quickly, and/or that
b) some channel is made available for correcting already submitted texts. [In this connection, your statement "DP doesn't have any special control after the point where they submit the book to PG" seems bizarre to me, since who does have control of the text, if not the submitter?] and/or
c) a better process, using digitally-generated audio, like the one I use, be added to DP.
You say: "Please ask that person to find similar errors in a text with a PG number over 10,000."
OK, here's a book by Trollope's mom:
Domestic Manners of the Americans
Author: Fanny Trollope
Release Date: November 30, 2003 [EBook #10345]
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Anaias9000 -- I'd like to put you in touch with my sister. Drop me a PM so I can do so.
Here's what she had to say about your latest--
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Originally Posted by Xenophon's sister
Yes, please put this person in touch with me directly.
The example he chose for later than 10K is not a DP book. It was produced by an independent producer. Please mention that publically (if his response to you was public, that is), and that while DP provides most of the books at PG, we don't provide all of them so even for books with PG numbers larger than 10K there may be errors. There are certainly errors in the DP books, even now, but they should be few and far between. All PG books that are prepared by DP say so in the credit line near the beginning of the book.
Since he talks about wanting DP not to post so quickly, he obviously doesn't know much about us, and is completely out of touch with all the workflow issues we are having that make that statement ludicrous. Further, he doesn't understand that once PG starts distributing a text, they have to take responsibility for it. There's no telling, years later, whether the original producer will still be around.
There's a wide perception that PG texts are full of errors. DP has put a huge amount of energy into making high quality texts and hopefully we'll be able to change the image. [SNIP]
Thanks!
Juliet
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