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LexiRevellian Reading Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

29 Sep 2011, 03:36 PM | Post: #11

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RE: Amazon readying big Kindle book push for October

Are publishers are getting better at digital than they were a year ago - things like formatting properly, and realistic prices, and getting their backlists out as e-books?

What do you think?

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30 Sep 2011, 11:18 AM | Post: #12

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RE: Amazon readying big Kindle book push for October

I think some are, but others, and I could name names, are not. Some seem to being OCR to simply copy print versions. This is fairly easy to spot, mainly because there are usually no chapter breaks and some words don't come out well.
I just hope it gets better over time.

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LexiRevellian Reading Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

30 Sep 2011, 11:33 AM | Post: #13

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RE: Amazon readying big Kindle book push for October

In America, at any rate, Amazon has been contacting authors if they get a complaint about typos or formatting from the public. Presumably they are doing this to publishers too, but I don't know if it's happening here. It's bad for Amazon if some books are poorly produced.

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04 Oct 2011, 12:58 PM | Post: #14

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RE: Amazon readying big Kindle book push for October

I agree with that Lexi, but apparently they are "unpublishing" books and then telling the author. I wonder if they are even checking that typos are even there beforehand? I've seen some dubious stuff on another board that shows some amazon employees with barely any grammar knowledge telling an author about typos! (that aren't typos but part of local dialects)

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LexiRevellian Reading Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

04 Oct 2011, 01:28 PM | Post: #15

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RE: Amazon readying big Kindle book push for October

(04 Oct 2011 12:58 PM)jumpingjack42 Wrote: I agree with that Lexi, but apparently they are "unpublishing" books and then telling the author. I wonder if they are even checking that typos are even there beforehand? I've seen some dubious stuff on another board that shows some amazon employees with barely any grammar knowledge telling an author about typos! (that aren't typos but part of local dialects)

Yes, I saw that. I'd be jolly fed up if it happened to me.

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04 Oct 2011, 01:31 PM | Post: #16

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RE: Amazon readying big Kindle book push for October

(04 Oct 2011 01:28 PM)LexiRevellian Wrote: Yes, I saw that. I'd be jolly fed up if it happened to me.

Me too. You would think they would go with some "warning" system, like you have x days to upload a new version. Then they need to really sort out pushing corrected books out to customers, though apparently they have legal issues with being able to do that.
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19 Oct 2011, 12:02 PM | Post: #17

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RE: Amazon readying big Kindle book push for October

I was thinking about this "sale" yesterday, but couldn't find any promotion on Amazon UK.
Anyone know anything about it now? I'm down to only 80 in my TBR pile Big Grin

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19 Oct 2011, 12:14 PM | Post: #18

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RE: Amazon readying big Kindle book push for October

I thought the same joo. I did wonder if it was still going ahead because they usually promote discounts well.

Only 80 in your TBR pile? I can do better than that, must be well over 120 now, but still I go and check Amazon every single day! Undecided

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19 Oct 2011, 12:26 PM | Post: #19

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RE: Amazon readying big Kindle book push for October

Likewise I've heard nothing more about it on neither Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.com.

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19 Oct 2011, 01:40 PM | Post: #20

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RE: Amazon readying big Kindle book push for October

I've been holding off on the spending - sort of - one or two have slipped through of course. Smile

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