Kindle eBooks will have PUBLIC Warnings for spelling/formatting errors!

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

Ok. Then you are accurate since you do have exact word counts. I just thought it looked a little high. It would be so nice if Amazon gave a word count for a location.
Atlas Shrugged which is around 645,000 words is 27682 locations.
That comes out to 23.3 words per location. So your math was spot on and mine was a bit off.

Oh, hell, math my saggy old tuchus. I'm not that devoted! I literally just dug up client books, used Sigil's word count to get a count for the file, and then opened the mobi to the very last location in the book. I did 3 of them, and they all came out pretty much the same (I admit..I did some math there, comparing word counts), so...

At least we have a number to go with the errata-per calculation. I can't wait to see the result on THAT, in terms of writers complaining that they got shafted, because they only had X-1 errors per 10,000 words...snort.

Hitch

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by Hitch

Oh, hell, math my saggy old tuchus. I'm not that devoted! I literally just dug up client books, used Sigil's word count to get a count for the file, and then opened the mobi to the very last location in the book. I did 3 of them, and they all came out pretty much the same (I admit..I did some math there, comparing word counts), so...

At least we have a number to go with the errata-per calculation. I can't wait to see the result on THAT, in terms of writers complaining that they got shafted, because they only had X-1 errors per 10,000 words...snort.

Hitch

"The warning killed my sales because I made one small mistake and never got the email to correct it" crying.
You will please share the funnier whines.

I am glad between the two of us, we have a figure to work with.

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

"The warning killed my sales because I made one small mistake and never got the email to correct it" crying.
You will please share the funnier whines.

I am glad between the two of us, we have a figure to work with.

Yeah (on the whines), but unlike the CFH (Clients from Hell) or the Slushpile Hell guy, I'm sorta on the hook, as I have no way to share stuff, really. I mean, firstly, I'm not anonymous, anywhere I go (except for my top-secret identify on StraightDopers forum...a girl's gotta have SOMEPLACE where she can debate topics and blow off steam without being on the hook for it), and obviously, it would be easy-peasy for one of them to recognize themselves. So...I'm sorta shot in the bum about that. Wish I could.

Although, as snarky as I can be sometimes, I'm not really a mean-spirited person, y'know? I mean, as crazed as they make me some days (okay...a lotta days), I don't want to get a laugh at their expense. I'm perfectly content to make fun of myself...but even if I could post something, say, on CFH, a part of me would feel that I'd been a small person, for ridiculing them--even anonymously (both mine and the client's).

I know, I know...it's sorta old-fashioned, but...I can't shake it.

You make an excellent point, however--and I hadn't thought of it before you posted. I'm now a bit frazzled, thinking of how this might boomerang on me (my company)...bejaysus, I hope I don't get emails like that, blaming US for typos and stuff! Holy &^%$#@, Batman... Can you imagine? "I lost $XX dollars, because they put that banner up, and it's all your fault?!" Ye gods...

Hitch

[badgoodDeb]

Save the original, and show them that the errors were ALREADY THERE, and you weren't hired as an editor?

[Cinisajoy]

I know what you mean by on the hook.
Hey question, do you publish the books or do you just do the hard work and your clients do the upload to Amazon?
I was wondering if you or your clients would get the email.
Ok so I hope neither would get that email.
I may pay a visit to another place around the 16th. Just to read not to post.
It will either be silly or depressing.

[mitford13]

So, if anybody wants to see the warning 'live', there's one on the Goode-reader's book:

http://www.amazon.com/Goodereader-e-.../dp/B005MWT7L4

If you squint, it's the little yellow triangle below and to the right of the author's name.

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by mitford13

So, if anybody wants to see the warning 'live', there's one on the Goode-reader's book:

http://www.amazon.com/Goodereader-e-.../dp/B005MWT7L4

If you squint, it's the little yellow triangle below and to the right of the author's name.

Hoooooooooooo, boy. Man, there's some nasty in there. I mean, a lot of people don't like Mike Kozlowski--it looks like they couldn't WAIT to gang up on him. Lord, I hope this doesn't become a trend.

Hitch

[eschwartz]

Hitch -- maybe there *are* typos in there... and he's more popular than we ever thought.

[mitford13]

I wondered if he was maybe using his own book as a guinea pig ($2.5M+ sales ranking on a book assessing 2011 e-book readers, pretty much dead in the water), to have another 'first' to report (blogged on 5 Feb.)
Just speculation...

[doubleshuffle]

Completely un-Tweedle-related: Would anybody buy an e-reader buying guide from 2011??

[Little.Egret]

Originally Posted by mitford13

So, if anybody wants to see the warning 'live', there's one on the Goode-reader's book:

http://www.amazon.com/Goodereader-e-.../dp/B005MWT7L4

If you squint, it's the little yellow triangle below and to the right of the author's name.

Doesn't carry over to the UK store

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Goodereader-...dp/B005MWT7L4/

[shalym]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

Hitch -- maybe there *are* typos in there... and he's more popular than we ever thought.

There are definitely typos...I found a few just in the "Look Inside".

Shari

[Jack Torrance]

Originally Posted by Yolina

So they're still allowing a lot of 'defects' Good thing I'm not in charge, I wouldn't let more than 3 in any book regardless of length...

So who would catch all this? I would be willing to bet money there isn't a "perfect" book out there.

Originally Posted by Fbone

I think 3 errors in 12 pages is too many. At that rate there may be 80 errors in the entire book.

OMG The world is coming to an end..... On second thought, that's what actually happened so maybe it doesn't count.

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

Save the original, and show them that the errors were ALREADY THERE, and you weren't hired as an editor?

We absolutely do that, up to a point. But I literally can't keep all the source materials forever. I used to--but a few terabyte SSD's into this, I can't any longer. PLUS, remember, I pay for storage and production server space, on several fronts, not even including my back-up space. So, since...about 12 months ago? When I archive the projects--which I do AFTER two warnings/alerts to the client that I'm going to do this--I nuke all the materials, except for the final files (ePUB, MOBI, and MOBI source file, whether slightly-altered ePUB or zipped folder). So...could be dicey. Hope not.

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

I know what you mean by on the hook.
Hey question, do you publish the books or do you just do the hard work and your clients do the upload to Amazon?

Oh, HELLS no. No way. I have never met any client that was tradepubbed that wasn't convinced that their publisher had "done them wrong" in the finances department. So...nah. I'm never going down that path.

I was wondering if you or your clients would get the email.
Ok so I hope neither would get that email.

No, they'll get it, but trust me, I see it instantly. ;-) INSTANTLY, I assure you. It's like being in Star Trek. Scotty beams the notices from them to me, faster than you can say, "Kindle Quality Notice." :-)

I may pay a visit to another place around the 16th. Just to read not to post.
It will either be silly or depressing.

Sorry, Cins, I genuinely don't know to what you are referring?

Hitch

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by Hitch

We absolutely do that, up to a point. But I literally can't keep all the source materials forever. I used to--but a few terabyte SSD's into this, I can't any longer. PLUS, remember, I pay for storage and production server space, on several fronts, not even including my back-up space. So, since...about 12 months ago? When I archive the projects--which I do AFTER two warnings/alerts to the client that I'm going to do this--I nuke all the materials, except for the final files (ePUB, MOBI, and MOBI source file, whether slightly-altered ePUB or zipped folder). So...could be dicey. Hope not.



Oh, HELLS no. No way. I have never met any client that was tradepubbed that wasn't convinced that their publisher had "done them wrong" in the finances department. So...nah. I'm never going down that path.



No, they'll get it, but trust me, I see it instantly. ;-) INSTANTLY, I assure you. It's like being in Star Trek. Scotty beams the notices from them to me, faster than you can say, "Kindle Quality Notice." :-)



Sorry, Cins, I genuinely don't know to what you are referring?

Hitch

There is another forum that I refuse to link too that has a writer's area. I am sure most of the posters there will be whining about that warning.
It used to be fabulous there until the newbies started telling the successfuls that the successfuls knew nothing about book publishing.
I may wander over there since when I left there, the "authors" were literally posting that errors don't matter if the story is good.