[bksvol-discuss] Re: Question about reject or fix
- From: "Kim Friedman" <kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 22:40:28 -0700
Hi, of course the problem lies in that the submitter probably didn't
read science fiction in the first place and was probably unfamiliar with
the author's work. If he/she was, then the submitter would know the
author's tendency to change spelling deliberately. I don't know if the
submitter was blind or sighted, but you know how the NLS program doesn't
give us everything by all the authors writing science fiction. I'd say
you have to either change the words back with a comment that any
misspelled words in the text are deliberate on the part of the author or
you reject the book. I proofread genre fiction sometimes, and I have to
say that I'm not always sure if the author meant to leave in typos, so
in those instances I dither. Regards, Kim Friedman.
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mayrie ReNae
Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2011 10:09 PM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Question about reject or fix
Hi Misha,
Well, it is wrong, the book has been altered, and we can't do that
legally. It's your call, but I think that you either have to fix the
errors or reject the book. I'm sure the scanner/submitter had no idea
he was doing anything he shouldn't have, probably thought he was
meticulously fixing scanning errors, only to find this out. He went to
a lot of work to fix the odd spellings, and that's sad. But we can't
alter the text like that. That's just huge, and if I were the author,
I'd not be happy about a change like that.
Just my opinion though.
Mayrie
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike
Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2011 9:46 PM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Question about reject or fix
What would you do? I have a book that I am proofing. I have the print
book so I can check problems. However, I have found that the person who
scanned it made many changes. This is a science fiction book where
alien speech is spelled different than regular English (to represent an
accent). The person who did the scanning has changed these to the
proper English spelling. I could try to change these back since I have
the book, but I don't know if I will find all of them and there are many
sections of the text to change. I hate to reject the book and tell the
person who scanned it that he did all this extra work, but it is wrong.
Misha
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