[bksvol-discuss] Re: The publisher of the book I am validating has made mistakes – is it okay if I change them?
- From: 17razz@xxxxxxxxx
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- Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 15:25:17 -0500
To Marry: That's what I thought, but I just had to make sure.
Thanks for the compliment.
To Cindy – I meant to say I wanted to check to make sure the
pages and passages in the scanned copy matched the ones found in the
printed copy.
Jess
On 12/6/08, Cindy Rosenthal <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jess,
>
> I'm not sure Iunderstand the question.
>
> If the submitter's assistant put in the question marks
> and they were different characters in the printed
> book, change them to what's in the printed book. It
> may be that the submitter couldn't read or udnerstand
> the characters and that's why the assistant put in the
> question marks--asking the validator to determine what
> they should be. Some submitters put asterisks in place
> of something they can't figure out or they think a
> word might be missing.
>
> HTH
>
> Cindy
> --- Jess Killian <17razz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> The submitter of the book I have been
>> validating for the past
>> week just emailed me the answers to my questions.
>>
>> For those of you who do not know what problems
>> I was having or to
>> those of you who need a refresher on what my
>> problems were, there were
>> sections of the book that had characters that looked
>> as though they
>> might be question marks. I had emailed the
>> submitter asking her if
>> the pages and passages I had read in the printed
>> copy matched the ones
>> found in the scanned copy. It seems as though the
>> answer was "yes."
>>
>> Despite the fact the publisher intended the
>> characters to be in
>> the text, the submitters assistant changed these
>> characters into
>> question marks. Granted, this would make the
>> reading more
>> pleasurable, but am I allowed to change errors made
>> by the publisher?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jess
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jessica Killian
>>
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