[bksvol-discuss] Re: Improving excellent books
- From: "Bob" <rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 04:46:22 -0500
Yes, but I think you are getting into copyright stuff here.
It might be wrong, but it's the way things are.
We aren't editors, we are copiers. As such, it is not our responsibility (nor
right) to improve the writing of the author or publisher.
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From: eric troup
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 11:02 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Improving excellent books
No, you're right, but I still think it's our responsibility or at least our
prerogative to correct them when we spot them. Do you honestly believe an NLS
narrator would read the words as written, rather than say what s/he knows
should be the case? It's not like we're talking about correcting a character's
dialect or something (and if we *are* in your examples, that changes
everything.). This is more often than not a case of bad editing, not
authorship.
On 18 Apr 2008, at 05:08, Jamie Yates, CPhT wrote:
I think we have to be careful in validating in correcting "obvious errors".
I submitted a book recently, Acts of Violets (Flower Shop Mysteries #5),
which was frustrating because it has "obvious errors". But those errors are in
the book and not in my scanning, and as a submitter, I'm not allowed to correct
those errors. For example there is a word misspelled in the beginning pages but
it is part of a quote from Elaine Viets, and that is her words and you can't
change a quote from a person.
On page 19 the publisher used "belived" instead of "believed". On page 28
the publisher used "shouldes" instead of shoulders. On page 68 they have
"Coffe-Mate" instead of "Coffee-Mate". On page 152 they have "flourescent"
instead of "fluorescent". Get the idea?
Not all obvious errors are true errors in scanning.
Jamie in Michigan
Currently Reading - Survivor in Death - J.D. Robb
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