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Originally Posted by Jellby
Some day I'll have to write a book and hire you for formatting/publishing... just to make you happy  |
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Oh, Jellby. Would that you would. But as we know, that's where the cow eats the cabbage, as we say here in Uhmur-ika. I mean, authors that CAN write in html will--and they'll make their own books. Those that can, do. Those that can't, oh, man...they really,
really can't. ;-)
If they could, I would not have a biz. Thus...
one can't complain about it. What I was ranting about was the idea that a bunch of right-brainers are going to sit there and write their novels (or whatever) in html! Are there some? Sure, we see them here daily, on MR. But the vast majority--guys, if you knew how much time I spend on the phone walking people through stuff as simple as "downloading a file from a browser," instead of a word-processing file "saving" (because they have a program that will launch it from within their email) by "magic," you'd have a whole new vision of life. Trust me, I sure did.
Before I owned this business, it never really crossed my mind--I mean, I'm not young--that all these people out there in the world could NOT do things that we all do like breathing. Can't use Paypal; can't download from browsers, don't know how to save a file that they can't launch first, don't know how to use Word's outline function, don't know that headers are for structure...I mean, I walk authors through the icons on Word menus DAILY. Don't know how to copy a file, in a directory (folder, whatever). Word is a program that they live and breathe with, right? Something that they are using, in the hope of making a living from the output? But they don't know how to use it, and have displayed very little interest in learning it.
It's been very eye-opening for me. It truly has. I think that those of us who are remotely nerdy or tecchie forget that there's an entire world of people out there who really are NOT. I have clients (via publishers) that don't OWN A COMPUTER, never mind don't have Twitter, etc. I get paid by check all the time, even though we take Goog Wallet, Paypal, etc. I am not complaining about all this, I'm not. I'm trying to say that when "we" all live on the Internet, surrounded by other people who are ALSO tech-oriented, people who post on fora, yadda, we FORGET. Not everyone is "like us."
Hitch