Backlinks arrrrrrgh!

[exaltedwombat]

Originally Posted by Hitch

First I send them a detailed email (most of that is canned, thank GOD), explaining the issues with many-to-one. When you're largely dealing with right-brainers...well.

THEN, of course, they send back a crapload of questions, because they mostly don't get the explanation.

THEN, I send back more answers and finally, after about 4 emails, they decide one way or the other.

If your comms with your clients are easier, I envy you, I really do.

Hitch

Right-brainers are the creative , non-technical ones, yes? There's your mistake, throwing logical argument (and WRITTEN!) at non-analytical thinkers.

But then, isn't a meticulously (if erronously) end-linked manuscript a terribly left-brained thing?

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Doitsu

IMHO, it's more realistic to rely on popup footnote support by readers and apps. For example, Apple Books (iBooks) and eInk Kindles will automatically display footnotes as popups if they were properly encoded.

For example, KDP authors won't have to worry about the "many-to-one" problem, as long as they format footnotes according to the Kindle Publishing Guidelines.

Yes, KDP authors have to worry about the many-to-one problem as they have to make it work for the obsolete mobi format.

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by exaltedwombat

Right-brainers are the creative , non-technical ones, yes? There's your mistake, throwing logical argument (and WRITTEN!) at non-analytical thinkers.

But then, isn't a meticulously (if erronously) end-linked manuscript a terribly left-brained thing?

OMG, don't get me started on that! Do you have ANY idea how many people toss a completed ms at us, and then say, "oh, by the way, I want an index, too," and REALLY think that it somehow magically creates itself? (And cheaply, too.) I had a self-described small publisher--who has published multiple books for other authors--discuss that with me the other day and he actually thought that if he pushed the freaking "index" menu item on Word, it would automagically MAKE ONE, from nothing. Sweet Moses on a Pony.

And if you have any ideas how to explain the many-to-one logic problem to a right brainer, you let me know.

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Yes, KDP authors have to worry about the many-to-one problem as they have to make it work for the obsolete mobi format.

Wolfie, dear--no, the many-to-one is a problem for all digital publishers. It's not really a KF7 issue.

Hitch

[exaltedwombat]

If only my books for conversion arrived as nice tidy docx files! The indexing function in current versions of Word is pretty nifty, and Calibre converts the functionality to EPUB very nicely.

I tend to get the print-ready PDF file :-( But, then, why would anyone want to pay me a decent amount of money for an easy job?

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by exaltedwombat

If only my books for conversion arrived as nice tidy docx files! The indexing function in current versions of Word is pretty nifty, and Calibre converts the functionality to EPUB very nicely.

I tend to get the print-ready PDF file :-( But, then, why would anyone want to pay me a decent amount of money for an easy job?

Wombat, my dear, you iz preachin' to de choir. Ditto, ditto, ditto.

(n.b.: I learned to start asking them if they were still in touch with their layout folks, and asking for their INDD package files. It's still not Word->ePUB, but brother [?], it's a crapload better.)

Hitch